This is not a war. Call it what you like.Antilikos wrote:Has there ever been a war where we released enemy combatants or even tried enemy soldiers before the end of conflict? This is not a war I'm sure all of those Yemeni tourists were just over there sunning themselves after their "adventure training". One person is not another person. Each case is different. Even in the Nuremburg trials it was. Why? Because it should be I'm also sure you're right that cases against them wouldn't stand up in our civilian courts and they should just be let go to work further jihad. I still disagree that the world would be a better place if that were to be done. How can you say that? The world is a better place every time an injustice is fixed. We are the bad guys here. We need to fix it.
I completely disagree with mistreatment of detainees, but I also completely disagree that in a war you should hold to the same standards of law as you would see in a civil court. Not a civilian court. ANY COURT. Any Fair Proceedings. It just doesn't make sense that you would have lawyers and investigators out in the field of battle able to gather anything that would resemble proper evidence in our civil legal system.
Wartime evidence does not equal forensics and CSI bullshit. It equals the govt presenting what the individual has done. Our govt has good evidence on some of these people Al Qaeda camps they have been in, records and witness testimony that they were involved in some way. A FEW of them actually fought against soldiers and were captured.
Most of these motherfuckers get picked up by our troops and beaten, then transferred. Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr
He doesn't deserve a fair trial? This is not war. There will be no end. When do they get a trial? When Congress ends the war? WAIT! There is no war to end.