What I never get is how anyone either brings up the Bill or Rights or the Geneva Convention when neither is applicable to these people. The first is for citizens and residents (captured terrorists are neither), and the second is for lawful combatants and civilians which again, neither applies.
If you actually want a functional Geneva Convention you have to put some teeth into the people who violate it from the ‘we didn’t sign on, and barbarically ignore it’ end. If you treat them with kid gloves as they regularly torture and murder your people, you do nothing to deter their actions.
You want to send a message? Reciprocity. They kill our prisoners? Well then we kill theirs right back (after dragging any information out we can by whatever means). Sure we don’t need to be barbarians and do it on posted video, but firing squads still work just fine.
If you let people you are fighting ignore the Geneva Convention without any consequence whatsoever, why the hell would anyone you fight in the future honor it?
Instead of tit for tat, and making our men into firing squads, id rather see a day of honesty. We notify Saudi Arabia that the game is over. The next attack traced to a wahabbist element, including any wahabbist mosque in America, will result in the seizure of their oil fields. It would be child’s play for us.
Then give them 24 hrs to evacuate mecca at which time 7 or 8 hydrogen bombs will hit it.
And then we just go back to being normal “America” the classic version, without the universal domestic surveillance, without the brushfire wars without end, without using torture of any type. Let them chase down all their own loose ends.