Dustin James wrote:Here is something about the pressure to release or treat the Gitmo enemy combatants with rights retained by US citizens. Some among us think that it's okay to project our values onto people who could care less. It's anthropomorphism at it's finest (yeah, look it up)
It is amazing that they want to bring these people to the continental U.S. Even more coincidental that the place they chose was Illinois for what, $100 million? Just an amazing coincidence.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091231/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guantanamo_al_qaidaJust sayin'
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The U.S. has signed onto stuff like the Geneva Conventions. have we signed out of it since then?
Who are these enemy combatants? What is "War"? What are the conditions by which a War ends?
A war is something between Nations. The 'Enemy combatants' represent no existing government or nation. If they are simply criminals captured in Afghanistan or Iraq. They should be held in Afghanistan and Iraq and tried by the new governments of Afghanistan or Iraq. Al Queda represents no nation that exists or did exist.
When the War is over, the prisoners go home. In the American Civil War, the Southernors did not share our values: they did not value freedom or human life as good as we did. After the war Confederate Prisoners of War were released to the South, where some of them got into the habit of terrorizing freed blacks. these terrorists were then simply criminal citizens. The Confederate Government did no longer exist. In World War II, after the war, most of the POWs go home. A few officers and statesmen are tried, but most of the grunts and lower officers go home.
There is no war in Japan or Korea. We could be bringing all the troops home from Japan and Korea. Or shipping them to Afghanistan or Yemen for the next 60 years.
