Actually, Bush et al under-reached. The “enemy combatants” should have been designated as spies, and summarily executed. The fact that President Bush saw the potential for (1) gleaning intel and (2) making a mistake in designating apprehended individuals were major causes of the decision to treat them as what they legally are - unlawful enemy combatants.
POWs are by definition uniformed enemy servicemen.
These people must be willing to roll the dice that it won’t be them or their relatives jumping out of a building next time.
Decisions like this are designed to prevent us from fighting back in a meaningful way. Which is what they want.
Since they will never get near a battlefield, and they hate the military, they figure they can hamstring the military & either get them killed, or at least cut back on the number who will join or remain in the military. They must have loved the 90s, when we got hit repeatedly & didn’t really fight back & many of those killed were military.
However, they are the worst sort of cowards, as they are emboldened to issue opinions like this because they know that the military has significantly disrupted the terrorists over the past 7 years.
Where are the modern-day Jeffersons, Washingtons, Adamses & Franklins?