Excerpt Of The Day: WW2 Vs. Today — How We Treated Prisoners Caught Out Of Uniform

by John Hawkins | June 7, 2005 6:39 pm

“What will future generations think when they see the front pages of our leading newspapers repeatedly preoccupied with whether we are treating captured cut-throats nicely enough? What will they think when they see the Geneva Convention invoked to protect people who are excluded from protection by the Geneva Convention?

During World War II, German soldiers who were captured not wearing the uniform of their own army were simply lined up against a wall and shot dead by American troops.

This was not a scandal. Far from being covered up by the military, movies were taken of the executions and have since been shown on the History Channel. We understood then that the Geneva Convention protected people who obeyed the Geneva Convention, not those who didn’t — as terrorists today certainly do not.” — Thomas Sowell[1]