And you tell me who's more principled the United States or some terrorist thugs? When we compromise princple and freedom, the very same principles and freedom that the terrorists hate, when we start stooping to their level, that's "their" victory not ours. It's about princple. It's about rules set up to provide for the defense of the accused to prevent innocent people from going to jail. If that means 1000 terrorists go free, so that one not one single innocent man goes to jail, so be it! That's the way the Founding Fathers set up the system, not to be compromised by shorted sighted people such as yourself.
I guess you are going to tell me we should have ignored Pearl Harbor because reacting would have been "stooping" to the level of the Japanese.
I play to win. By any means necessary. If some Arab terrorist loses some rights, I hate it for him. If he doesn't like it, he can go back home.