re: #1314 Right Brain

In the 233 year history of the United States we have never taken an enemy combatant off the field of battle and tried them in a civilian court.

Are you claiming that we have not prosecuted (via the criminal system) terrorists before?

It seems you’re trying to define away the issue here by saying the 5 individuals in question are only like the combatants of nations we have fought via declared (by Congress, UN mandate, or whatever) wars.

If the people involved in the previous attack on the WTC were subject to trial, then why not those who were part of (by direction and conspiracy) the second attack?