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"If the people have a problem with the way the executive is prosecuting a war, they should take it up with their elected representatives."

You've made it clear that the executive, in terms of any actions relating to war, has absolute and unquestionable authority that overrides laws, judges, and the US Constitution. As the aforementioned elected representatives are under the Constitution, and your position is that the President is above the Constitution, it would seem rather silly to complain to them. What are they going to do, exactly? It'd be like complaining to the janitor of IBM that the CEO is behaving inappropriately, and then expecting positive results.

"Interpreting the constitution as a suicide pact"

An originalist interpretation of the US Constitution (in other words, looking at it from a common sense perspective) plainly shows that the Constitution is nothing less than a suicide pact. The men who placed their signatures upon it faced, from any reasonably thinking person at the time's perspective, absolute and certain death by the hands of Crown military law enforcement as punishment for treason. No group of farmers, lawyers, and businessmen has any chance against the most powerful military in the world; signing an open declaration of treason against it is suicide.

"believing that your rights are so freaking sacred that they should be given deference to in every circumstance, no matter how extreme, even if the practical result is the death of citizens or soldiers at the hands of our enemies."

If our military fights to defend the rights of citizens, then it stands to reason that such a defense will inevitably result in the unfortunate death of some of our brave soldiers. If our military exists merely to preserve as many American lives from foreign aggression as possible, then its primary purpose should be to seek out peaceful resolution with any hostile force, giving them whatever money, land, or other such things that force requires so that it does not attack Americans. If the only thing we were interested in was saving lives, we should have surrendered to Osama, Saddam, and whoever else threatens us a long time ago. If we begged for our lives and did as we were told, I'm quite certain more of us would survive than will when we fight our enemies.

We do not surrender because mere survival is insufficient.

Live Free or Die

If the only thing we were interested in was saving lives, we should have surrendered to Osama, Saddam, and whoever else threatens us a long time ago. If we begged for our lives and did as we were told, I'm quite certain more of us would survive than will when we fight our enemies.

A ridiculous position belied by the many pictures of Jews climbing aboard trains, the gulags, the killing fields of Cambodia and on and on and on.