> Sam wrote: > Every enemy combatant caught on in battle trying to murder our > soldiers will have full access to our judicial system with court > appointed lawyers and will force his captures to testify.
Pull up out of the weeds and all of the Rush talking points. Here's the deal: 1.) "Legal" When US soldiers are engaged in combat, the fog of war applies. The best we have is the Geneva convention. 2.) "War". It was a war when we attacked Afghanistan, but it's over. There's a war in Iraq, but it's almost over. We cannot define war as "the period of time between now and when all attacks against Americans anywhere ceases to exist". But reasonable people can differ on that. Even if we call it war, we simply cannot lock people up forever. Period. We'll have to come up with another solution if we insist on defining war as infinite. The whiny "but US law shouldn't apply blah blah blah" argument is a demagogue's wail. 3.) "The battlefield". Many of the GitMo prisoners were captured because their neighbors got $25,000 for turning them in. That having been said, ~200 have been released and some have gone right back to battle. The summary is, we have to defend America from her greatest position of strength: the principles she was founded on. And those principles were 180 degrees opposed to locking people up without process. If we start whining that those principles are a weakness (as fear might make one do), then we have been terrorized. If we've been terrorized, the terrorists have won. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:210535 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
