Where Are The Marches And Outrage From The Left Wing Peaceniks

Who are quick to demand certain rights to known and suspected terrorists.....

Double standard or simply self-loathing?
A Tale of Two Standards [J. Peter Pham]

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For over five years now, the United States and its allies have had to endure ad nauseam the self-righteous indignation of the self-appointed guardians of international law over alleged transgressions of highly debatable “rights” said to belong to indubitably illegal combatants.

Now comes the case of the Royal Navy personnel from HMS Cornwall currently being held prisoner by the Iranian government, one of whom, Leading Seaman Faye Turney, after being duly covered by an Islamic headscarf, was put on Iranian state television today to admit that she and her mates had “obviously trespassed” into Iranian waters — a coerced confession that is belied by satellite and other evidence presented earlier in the day by British officials. (Some of the Iranian footage is streamed by the BBC here.)

Even allowing, merely arguendo, that the fifteen British sailors and marines had indeed strayed into Iranian waters and, furthermore, that they did so with hostile intent toward Iran, the British personnel would still be clearly legal combatants, fully entitled to the protections of the Third Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Putting Ms. Turney and her fellow prisoners on television — much less shrouding her in the medieval raiment favored by the mullahs of Teheran and making her recite the praises of her captors (”They were very friendly and very hospitable, very thoughtful, good people…They were very, very compassionate”) — is a clear violation of both the letter and the spirit of the laws of war as known and practiced by civilized nations and enshrined in Geneva Convention (III) for lawful combatants.

But has anyone heard so much as a whisper of protest over this willful abuse of uniformed personnel by any of those nongovernmental organizations which are never at a loss to protest the slightest indignity or inconvenience — however unintentional — visited upon captured terrorists?