Maybe a refresher on the classes of spin is appropriate?
[link|http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html|All Too-Common Logical Fallacies == US Polit-Speak Standards]
When you project your collected illusions along the tawdry dichotomies of, Librul/Cunservative, Right/Left, Right/Wrong yada yada and imagine you Know what Brandioch (or me, for that matter) Rilly Believes\ufffd. (Nada, Zippo and ugh):
You simply mimic the process by which all polit-speak in Murica is regularly doomed to doggerell and sloganeering. As here, sadly, too, mostly. Apparently it is this Murican habit which guarantees the status quo indefinitely (?) While it's fun to skewer one piece of doggerel with its equal & opposite piece of doggerel (though useless) - in present thread, the Question was more easily stated than in the usual exchange of vague generalities about the Meaning of Life as seen through My Glasses. It was about:
WTF does the 'Geneva Convention' have to say about certain classes? categories? of captured combatants.
Dubya, the Ayatollah, various Imams n' other cloaked wonders [oil] and guided or misguided [oil] adherents to their mindsets - has Zippo to do with THAT topic. (Issues of mindset are about merely trying to see ~how certain kinds of idiots contrast with other kinds of idiots - at home and abroad, seems to me.)
A second rich vein of either brilliant analysis or maudlin demagoguery would be: The Kid from Marin (next door to my county). And it has its thread(s). But not This thread IIRC.
If you think Brandioch's POV needs 'explaining' (??) then I'd have to go with Another Scott's nicely brief recapitulation of the thread and where it has gone --> typical.
There Is No Such Thing as a 'Liberal' or a 'Conservative' in 2002 Murica - just as there is no such thing as The American Peepul. Meditate on that just after Aummmmmmmm, please. Gosh.. maybe a form of that assertion could introduce the Politics forum; save lots of inane rhetoric.
Yours for more Interesting Catfights,
Ashton Gandhi Cthulhu
who will also have to try not to bite on the Next lazy buzz-word, in the Next textbook rant - for the sheer discipline.. :(