"I fully expect the ACLU to have him taken from military custody and tried in the criminal courts. Thus reducing his punishment to no more than deportation probably."Deport him where? He was born in this country.
"When you prosecute a phony war the citizenry doesn't act like there's a war"
Sure seems a real enough war to me...unless you're in the camp that says Congress' insistance that the president go to war but not ask the Congress to write a writ in case the war didn't work out well makes what we did and are mopping up in Afghanistan to be a police action...
A war is where you invade your enemy's country and crush him. This is in no measure what happened in Ashcanistan ... a small proxy dustup by any account. In a war you stop the enemy from freely entering your own country to kill and mame your own citizens. This is no war.