Maybe it's just me........
Let's see. We have Islamofacists who hate us, and would cut off our heads, and cut out our hearts if they could. They hate us and everything we stand for.
But, if captured, they want to hide behind our Constitution, and our laws. Do I have this correct so far???
Well, I've got news for them. I say kill them all, and spare us the trial!!!
My God!! Have we lost our minds?? Do we REALLY want to give our enemies the same Constitutional protection and laws as we the citizens??
If the Islamofacists like our laws and constitution so much, let THEM adopt them.
Until they do, I say "Do unto others as they would do unto you"!!
Let me wade in here for a moment. I think it's perfectly acceptable for a young man to be idealistic in revering our Constitution. What you and Concretebob may be reacting to is not our Constitutional protections extended to captured terrorists, but the caricatures that the ACLU has twisted and turned our basic rights into.
There's a world of difference between fundamental human decency, for which George Washington set the precedent by his treatment of British captives, and the kind of treatment our POWs received in Vietnam.
Fact is, what goes around, comes around. If we deal in torture, we can expect our troops, which now include women (not my idea, so let's not get sidetracked on it), to be treated the same way.
Is there no middle ground besides denouncing a brilliant and courageous young survivor of Saddam's murderous rampage and enthusiastic FReeper --one who has learned the Constitution in order to adopt it as his heart's fondest standard?