Not you personally, Thank...
Posted on 02/27/2008 8:18:13 PM PST by thankfultobefree
Hoover senior fellow Peter Berkowitz, chairman of Hoover's Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security, explains that the war against terror does indeed pose formidable challenges for the American legal system, in part because the United States is facing a threat "unlike any other in its history." Berkowitz states that, unlike previous enemies of the United States, this new enemy is "not part of a nation-state, does not fight in uniformed troops against other armies in uniformed troops, and does not limit itself to conventional armed conflict but instead targets civilians or operates in civilian areas, and its threat could continue for decades."
Journalist and Brookings fellow Benjamin Wittes (also a member of Hoover's Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law) argues that "we cannot escape the fact that legal rules are inevitably less absolute, less truly legal, in this context than, for example, in the domestic civilian context." He argues, further, that the existing judicial review process as it pertains to enemy combatants is too ambiguous and calls for the U.S. government to clarify it. He proposes "Congress should write into law the procedures that consign people to detention for life at Guantánamo, make them significantly more generous to the accused, and structure judicial review for the narrow purpose of holding the military accountable to these clear statutory commands." Wittes also contends that, although direct judicial review might not placate everyone, it offers "a far simpler and more efficient means of ensuring compliance with procedural rules than does a habeas regime without a clear set of standards to enforce."
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Well let’s see.
Our last two US POWs in Iraq had their balls cut off and stuffed into their slit throats by Al Qaeda.
That Geneva Convention really helped there. Come to think of it, the GC hasn’t helped one American soldier since we signed it in 1947.
Non-uniformed enemy combatants are owed one thing—a firing squad.
And then their family should be sent a bill for the amunition used.
No, we are not treating them fairly at all. We should saw off their heads with dull knives, or burn them alive, that would be “fair” because that’s what they do to us.
Fairness has no place in warfare. (Recall: “All’s fair in love and war.”) The question is whether we should treat them according to the law. The answer is yes, and furthermore, in fact we do.
Not you personally, Thank...
If they can still fog a mirror, I think we’ve treated them more than fairly.
No, we’re not being fair. Under the Geneva Convention we could just shoot the garbage and put it out. But first I’d sew bacon into their mouths.
Those that do not learn the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them.....
Piracy
Indian Wars along the US frontier
Mexican Rebels/bandits that lead to the Mexican/American War
What would Black Jack Pershing do? What would Teddy Roosevelt do?
clue: From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli
We need to start all over...so lets toss the ones we have into the ocean and be done with it.
Play to win. Smite your enemy. Return home alive.
Where's the confusion?
I hope NOT !
Unfortunately yes!
Absolutely! They are still alive and have all their members. QED.
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