Tue, 01/13/2009 - 10:39pm — Sarah
had the following to say:
would that his successors all had been men of such tender conscience and sensitive honor.Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country." - George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775
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now that you mention it
I think you are on to something
Not one word of parsing
Jeeze, Washington was not playing. He leaves no kind of room for any other interpretation of his words. I much prefer this clarity to the whining coming out of Washington, these days, about how 'hard it would be' to close down Gitmo.
Perhaps, along with Lincoln, our president-elect should probably be reading some Washington, as well, because this Washington guy don't sound half bad. :)
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...