It's 1938 All Over Again...

and we are doomed to repeat our mistakes. Former Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld is being charged, in Germany, with war crimes.

The irony of this, from my perspective, is that Germany, a putative ally (and a country that knows a few things about war crimes) is allowing this nonsense. And if this Bravo Sierra fails in Germany, then the lawyers for eleven Iraqi detainees will take the show on the road, hitting France and Spain.

Now, one does not have to agree with Rumsfeld, and his policies, to know that this is a slap in the face to America. The war crimes--torturing detainees who would not break under interrogation--included sleep deprivation and a ban on praying.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/14/
061114130208.yp1ygvix.html

One would think that Rumsfeld would have had to authorise seizing property, breaking mosque windows, and shipping Muslims off to camps via over-crowded railroad cars to rise to the level of war criminal. Hell, compared to previous war criminals, Rumsfeld is a piker. He didn't even set up any Rape Rooms (Saddam Hussein), imprison journalists (Fidel Castro), or kill homosexuals and women who had been raped (The Taliban). And more to the point, would the eleven detainees have had a free ride under Saddam Hussein, for instance? The Taliban? The Mad Mullahs of Iran? Really, has the Western World lost its collective mind?

We can all agree that Rumsfeld was a controversial figure, but he was doing a job that, for the most part, kept the body count low (consider the fact that many deaths were prevented due to the sleep deprivation and bans on prayer). As such, he should not be prosecuted because some idiot lawyer thinks that his client was wronged because he couldn't get his eight hours of sleep. The fact that the German judicial system is contemplating this action is dumbfounding.

Now, from where I sit, we should be charging the US Supreme Court (who have effectively banned prayer in school, at graduation ceremonies, and at sporting events) and new born children (because they cause their parents to be deprived of sleep) in Germany, as well.

So, to recap: Authorise sleep deprivation and ban prayer for detainees who want to kill Americans, bad. Ban prayer in schools and keep parents awake at night, good.

Following a similar thread, the Western World is poised to throw the democratic nation of Israel under the bus, for fear of offending the crazed Ahmadinejad.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/787766.html

Really, we are. The difference between the Domino Theory of the Cold War and the Domino Theory of today is that the Soviets were not likely to detonate any nuclear weapons for fear of reprisal. The Islamofacsists have no fear of reprisal, and have consistently indicated that the solution to their problems is the eradication of Israel, the destruction of the United States and the return of the Islamic Caliphate.

The culture of death that permeates Islam is palpable. And scary.

Rumsfeld and Israel are not the problems. President Bush and Prime Minister Blair are not the problems. Morons like Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) are not the problem. The German judicial system is not even the problem.

The issue is militant Islamofacsism that preaches death and destruction to all non-believers.

It is 1938 all over again. The difference this time is that we don't need to appease anyone. We know how it will turn out if we do.