To your knowledge, have you ever heard of military trials and summary execution?
There are so many examples of such from the Revolutionary War to Korea, that I doubt your veracity.
And thats what we are writing about here.
Speedy military trials & punishment.
Not the ACLU trying to neuter us with endless civilian complaints.
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There are so many examples of such from the Revolutionary War to Korea, that I doubt your veracity. "
Since you think I am being dishonest, I at least appreciate you being polite about it.
Let's leave the revolutionary war aside since we didn't have much government pr infrastructure in place.
But since then i have to tell you I am not aware of the Federal government systematically executing either civilians or captured soldiers without trials.
You changed the topic when said they had military trials. I guess you are gonna think I'm either dishonest or naive again but I think of executions following military trials not being normal for enemy soldiers, even irregulars.
Now for spies, I've heard of that. And I've heard of executions when there were no facilities for holding and it was unsafe to release.
But even if you are right about the history I think we are mistaken to not afford captured Al Quaeada some kind of rights -either as POWs or as civilian terrorists.
As POW's they could be held til the end of the war. I'm not sure why that is not the right choice if we don't want to let them go.