{"id":25702,"date":"2015-02-16T11:34:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=25702"},"modified":"2015-02-17T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:31:59","slug":"dr-ben-strangelove-carson-advocates-abandoning-the-geneva-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=25702","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ben ‘Strangelove’ Carson Advocates Abandoning The Geneva Conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of this year’s official candidates in the Fox News Republican primary for president is former pediatric brain surgeon, Ben Carson. The road to the White House for this neophyte politico has been fraught with embarrassing missteps such as his opinion that America is “very much like Nazi Germany,”<\/em> and that ObamaCare is “the worst thing in this nation since slavery.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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This morning Carson visited his temporarily former employer, Fox News, and spoke with anchor Bill Hemmer about the war on terrorism. Much of the interview consisted of worn out cliches and anachronistic quotes, but eventually Hemmer asked Carson what he would if he were president. Carson said that…<\/p>\n

“Our military needs to know that they’re not going be prosecuted when they come back, because somebody has said, ‘You did something that was politically incorrect.’ There is no such thing as a politically correct war. We need to grow up, we need to mature. If you’re gonna have rules for war, you should just have a rule that says no war. Other than that, we have to win. Our life depends on it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the warhawk doctor is proposing that the United States withdraw from the Geneva Conventions. He believes that American soldiers should be free to commit atrocities, war crimes, and other brutalities that are generally associated with our enemies. And if our side does engage in such acts, they should not be held accountable in any way.<\/p>\n

Obviously Carson is completely ignorant of the factors that led to the world adopting the Geneva Conventions in the first place. It was not merely a document intended to define humane behavior during wartime (a specious concept to begin with). Its purpose was also to protect Americans from being mistreated and abused by other countries with whom we were in conflict.<\/p>\n

Carson’s doctrine of “no rules”<\/em> would expose Americans, military and otherwise, to torture, cruel prison conditions, humiliation, and execution. And it would not enhance the prosecution of the war on terror in any way. However, it would affirm the image of the United States, in the eyes of many nations, as being hypocritical, untrustworthy, and convinced of its own superiority. These are not traits likely to advance our interests in international diplomacy.<\/p>\n

In the end, the Carson doctrine would only harm our ability to defeat the terrorists by alienating our allies and validating the tactics of the enemy. That is a doctrine that is bound to fail, but it is also one that stems from inexperience and the arrogance of the ignorant. Carson is not a deep thinker and his strategies would lead to disaster. Consequently, he will remain one of the GOP’s top candidates for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

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