re: #343 Edward Halper

We could not hand them a better recruiting tool.

Al Qaeda “recruiting tools” are completely irrelevant. They’re going to use whatever they’re given. If we put them on trial, they’ll use that - and if we don’t, they’ll use that just as easily.

It’s pointless to worry about whether we’re encouraging Al Qaeda.

It’s not pointless to worry about what it does to the US to hold people indefinitely without trial. This craziness has to end at some point, and we’ve already missed the point where we could have held quick military trials — long ago.