Harvest

I was planning a light post on a discussion about music with the Pirate Dogs. That will have to wait until later.

I've been off on vacation last Friday and over the weekend. So when I saw the news Sunday night about the US soldier captured by the Taliban, it was news, by the classic definition of that word. Hadn't kept up with things over the long weekend. (I'm still on vacation Monday and Tuesday,too.)

What isn't news or surprising is the reaction of some people about the Taliban's parading the prisoner in front of video cameras and other acts one does not usually associate with prisoners of war. Why, these dastards are violating the Geneva Conventions!!!! And we citizens of the USA are surprised and outraged????? Seems our previous administration said these conventions did NOT apply to the war on terror. Jihadists were enemy combatants, not soldiers. Now the horses have returned to the burning barn and the chickens have come home to roost. One of our boys is a prisoner and being treated very much like the Islamist extremists in our capture. We have ceded the high moral ground, thank you Messrs. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al. So while we hope and pray that this soldier is either rescued very quickly or the Taliban realizes the tremendous advantage they could gain by one-upping the "Great Satan" in humanitarian treatment, let's not add to our hypocrisy with demonstrations of outrage that we are being done to as we have done.