| akuma587 said: That'd go over well with the rest of the world and definitely show that we have reinstated the rule of law. |
Well, the rest of the world has gotten a bit soft with terrorists. Criminal proceedings need not apply to terrorists, who are illegal combatants.
The Geneva convention also does not apply to illegal combatants.
Protocoll II may have given protection to Iraqi nationals caught in Iraq, or Afghanis caught in Afghanastan, except the US, Iraq, and Afghanastan never ratified it. It wouldn't have given protection to foreign fighters, which the bulk of them are.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
