re: #315 LudwigVanQuixote

To continue, we have a mess that needs to get cleaned up. We need to re-establish that we are a nation of laws and a republic that stands by its own ideals. The only way to re-establish that is to follow those ideals even when it is painful.

This would be about the fourth or fifth thing on my list for why we should never have tortured. However, it is too late to do anything about that. We are either proud Americans with the courage to satnd for our own system or we are not.

The sub-context here about not giving them a trial is the belief that our own law is so unworkable and so broken that it does not apply. If that is true, then why bother fighting for it?