Killing a terrorist is a battlefield issue...They should not be afforded leniency or accomodation beyond the fact that they got caught instead of killed on the battlefield...Frost wrote:Killing someone already detained without a just process is murder. Torturing them is a greater evil.
I am no legal scholar, but i will do my best to describe a just system. I believe that habeas corpus is too important to be suspended except when it is necessary to temporarily detain masses of people. A few hundred detainees over a period of years hardly qualifies. I believe probable cause that they are an enemy combatant would be satisfactory for turning them over to a military tribunal. If the tribunal finds them to be an enemy combatant they should be interrogated without torture and executed.
A process such as that should protect people from arbitrary state action and respect the inalienable rights of all people while not interfering with our ability to fight stateless enemies.
A detainee is someone who is executed, because we have well documented facts that the majority that are somehow released back into the food chain go back to becoming a threatr to us again...Granted what do they have to lose...So I say why waste the gas getting them back home if all they are going to do is pick up sticks again and be better terrorists???
You seem to want to give these terrorists some justification to exist just because they got caught...I do not agree with you on trying to give them a "just process"...They are not our countrymen, nor should they be afforded any considerations other than the 3 (kosher) hots and a (Egyptian cotton linens) cot, till we are done picking their brains...
These terrorist are part of a coordinated effort that have killed, and will continue to kill our friends and countrymen...That to me is a credible reason for me and anyone else who wants to continue to engage and destroy this threat to support efforts to get those results...
