It's the Way We Treat Terrorists, Dummy

There is endless speculation from pundits on the left and the right about why voters have been abandoning the Democrat Party in record numbers since his holiness, Barack Obama, was inaugurated one year ago.

Certainly a lot of it has to do with the insanity surrounding the two hideous healthcare bills the Democrats in congress are secretly trying to merge into one.

But most voter consternation is due to the Democrats refusal to treat terrorist enemy combatants as anything other than common criminals. Thoughts of Arab terrorists standing next to guys who stole cable or refused to pay child support in the holding cell really doesn't sit well with independent thinkers.

Yet Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Administration insist we prosecute terrorists as if they were citizens of the United States.

Providing security for such trials on American soil costs millions of dollars, terrorist organizations can learn how to blow us up with greater efficiency using information gleaned at the trials, and, most importantly, it prevents anti-terrorist officials from learning information that could potentially save American lives because, upon their arrest, suspected terrorists are immediately provided with an attorney who instruct their clients to keep quiet.

This angers ordinary Americans - especially when you consider the fact that there is nothing positive about treating foreign terrorist detainees the same way we treat those who get behind the wheel after sniffing glue.

Some will try and claim that even loud music played in the cell of terrorist detainees violates terms of the Geneva Convention, but the Geneva Convention is not in play when dealing with an enemy that wears no uniform, attempts to bomb children and hides out among civilians.

The left has also declared it a fact that the act of waterboarding is torture.

The problem is that the far-left's conclusion on waterboarding is nothing other than an opinion.

Many in America don't believe waterboarding is torture. Some, who are of the opinion it is torture, still want the practice carried out if there is a possibility American lives will be saved.

Yet you Democrats continue turning the American people off by declaring a hotly-debated opinion to be fact. This fallacy is especially maddening because, as a result of your leaders holding the opposite opinion, the entire country is in jeopardy.

If we were talking about brutally pulling off fingers from the hands of terrorist detainees, I would be behind you 100%. After all, the overwhelming majority of Americans would consider such an act torturous and vehemently stand up against the United States implementing such tactics in order to gain even potentially life saving information.

But a large group of Americans are tired of saying, "We think waterboarding should be carried out in order to save the lives of our fellow citizens because we don't consider the practice torture," then hearing back from the government they elected to protect them, "Not only are we going to refrain from harshly interrogating any suspected foreign terrorist, we are also going to declare your opinion to be an incorrect fact - as if you were stating, 2 + 2 = 5."

I know it's frustrating for Democrats to hold all the power in Washington and still not have the ability to turn the United States into a socialist utopia. But you must always remember that no matter how many seats you hold in congress, a large majority of Americans will continue applying reason to the important issues of our day, and the American people have decided that it's okay to expose a killer of children to a few minutes of discomfort if, as a result, our American brothers and sisters don't have to suffer pointless death and destruction.