[hobbes1]

We respect the rights of human beings

Then obviously you disagree, that the targeting of civilians makes one claim to be human automatically forfeit?

[Truthsearcher]

Of course I disagree, are people like Ted Bundy, or the Nazis at Nuremberg, any less detestable? Those people got a trial or a tribunal, and after they are found guilty, received their appropriate sentence. Al Queda members deserve no more and no less.

This isn't about them, it is about us, they made the decision to be who they are, but how we deal with them defines who *we* are. If we abandon our principles, then we will have done far greater damage to ourselves than they did to us on 9/11.