Letter from Medal of Honor Recipient - My Thoughts

My brother received this account about a POW in an e-mail and asked me to share it and I am happy to do so.

On the issue of national security, as with everything else, the current congress and our current president have it wrong.

The terrorists "detained" at Gitmo need to stay there. What damaged brain cell is the government sharing that thinks it is a good idea to allow enemy combatants suspected of planning attacks on American soil onto American soil?

The "detainees" are not American citizens, therefore, they are not covered by the Constitution. No Miranda rights, no state-paid attorneys. By the way, the same should apply to anyone who is not a citizen and breaks our laws.

For those in the international community who think we are being mean in keeping them, why aren't they stepping up to take them? They are free for the taking! No one, not even the home countries of these people, wants them. If they did, Gitmo would have been closed the day Obama signed his executive order.

National security is an ugly business. To successfully infiltrate gangs, mobs, drug cartels or terrorists cells, we need people who are willing to do the dirty work and gather the intelligence. The type of people who do this work well are not the type of people you are going to be having over to your home for a weekend barbeque nor will they likely be sitting next to you in church. I am sure that they see and do unimaginable things to build the credibility needed to reach the levels of these criminal organizations that yield the valuable information we need to keep our country safe. I am not suggesting that the United States treat their detainees with the same inhumanity that Bud Day, John McCain and thousands more of our brave servicemen have endured at the hands of our enemies. What I am suggesting is that the "enhanced interrogation techniques" that we do employ don't even come close to what was described in Colonel Day's narrative. If Nancy Pelosi and her cronies don't have the stomach for waterboarding or showing dirty pictures to the oh-so-sensitive Islamic extremists, perhaps she should excuse herself from the national security committee and join the ranks of the rest of us who, gratefully, leave the dirty work to those who know what they are doing.