Why should the United States extend.....?

Question

Why should the United states extend human rights to the terrorist groups and governments who do not acknowledge these rights?

Answer 1

I think that the principle of treating others as you would like to be treated applies. While what they do is disgusting, it is an opportunity to set an example. If we are able to pick and choose who we give basic human rights to, then the Geneva convention was in vain.

Answer 2

Do you mean treatment under the Geneva Convention? The Bush administration claims that terrorism is not an entity of a specific national government so terrorists should be treated differently than actual war prisoners as noted in the Geneva Convention treaty on the treatment of prisoners of war. The US has also refused to sign an international agreement to recognize the power of the World Court that sets in Brussels, which could have the authority to charge the Bush administration and US troops with possible war crimes from their treatment of terrorist "POW's". Some have been held for 5 years, some who have underwent torture, with no right to representation by an attorney & without being specifically charged with a crime. The Bush administration should change this course of treatment in case US troops become POW's by hostile entities. Even John McCain has condemned Bush for those policies. At least he got a "watered down" bill against torture, but nothing else.

Answer 3

As Jesus approached a group of angry mobsters that were going to stone a prostitute and stated "Let he who without sin cast the first stone." Who will cast the first stone, they have done nothing but exert their rights as human beings to live the way they have lived for centuries. The problem is like in Africa they are sitting on a valuable commodity an the only way they can legally steal it is to have just cause to invade the country.
There are terrorist in Mexico, Columbia, Africa, Philippines, Japan, etc why don't we arrack them? They are not sitting on the worlds largest oil reserves. Why haven't we attacked North Korea, we have nothing to gain financially by doing so.
The real terrorist are the ones who suppress a nation right to govern themselves.

Answer 4

The obvious reason for extending human rights to all is that our insistence on these "inalienable rights" is what makes us different from despots, and that we sink to their level when we forget that. There is a genuine danger that we will not rise again.

Answer 5

We try to be better than our enemies,the rights and freedoms we hold dear are as effective as bullets in fighting them.