A Canadian Forces hospital is now up and running in Iraq and it will be treating ISIS radicals if they're brought in.
According to the Canadian Press, Chief of Defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance told the Commons defence committee that the hospital just started operations. It includes three surgeons and will provide medical support to anyone injured on the battlefield.
“We would never deny medical support to any casualty on a battlefield,” Vance said.
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Can you imagine if ISIS found a wounded Canadian soldier? Can you imagine the 'medical support' they'd receive?
The Canadian Press article mentions that this “position is consistent with the Geneva Conventions”. However, it begs the question: should ISIS be exempt from medical care?
SOUND OFF in the comments: what is your position on this?
We have a long history of caring for enemy combatants whoever they are.
Should doctors in our hospitals refuse to treat drunk drivers in auto accidents?
In all wars the enemy is hated by our soldiers up until the point they are rendered defenseless, then it is treat them the way you would want your fellow soldiers treated if they were captured or wounded by the enemy.
Japanese soldiers were brainwashed by their military to think that American soldiers would cannibalize them if they were caught so they fought to the death. Those that were captured were pleasantly surprised to find out they had been wrong.
We already know from multiple sources that many “stupid” people went to fight with IS because they thought it would be wonderful but now they are actually being made to fight upon the threat of death if they try to leave.
The bottom line is that if we behave as bad as IS then we are no better.
If you want to save money in our medical system to help those who really need it then tell your provincial governments to stop funding the $700,000.00+ sex change operations that we already do!!!! The suicide rate for sex change individuals is 10X that of the normal population.
And that is not even taking into acct that providing aid to terrorists is against our laws.
Humanity can’t be lost even when dealing with savages folks, if that happens they win.
Treated yes.. Then held as prisoners of war for nonnegotiable
terms..
Hell, patch ’em up and send em home to Canada to share a cocktail hour with McCallum at the Laurier bar.
I just hope there’s a 100% sure way to check for internal explosives in the enemy – those Moslem wounded our side will be treating – did I mention unscrupulous savagery?
I reiterate what someone else said about not releasing them back into the wild again. Duh!
Holding them as non-uniform/POWs till the end of hostilities could be logistically complicated and expensive – execution as spies (no uniforms) – very pragmatic…and solves so many problems.
Is there some point where we stop takin’ it in the nuts every time, by playing by our rules when no one else is?
Time to toss out those ‘civilized’ rules of engagement and kick some Islamic ass all across this big beautiful blue planet!
That’s what separates us from them, that’s why our culture is better than theirs. As Pamela Geller says, that’s what makes us civilized and them savages.
The problem is not the medical care for the enemy but the eventual releasing of the enemy back into the theatre of war, which would be the most likely thing the Baby Doc government would do being an SJW government. Kadhr being the most obvious example.
Upside, the Canadians could ensure that the ISIS fighters register those prohibited firearms.