re: #36 erik_t

In my cookie world, being a human being should give you a right to a trial before a summary execution.

Citizenship doesn’t have a damned thing to do with it. If we’re not sure enough to kill one of our own, we have no business killing one of someone else’s.

This would be true if we had a world where there was a reasonable chance of capturing such people alive, and accepting proofs that were based on spying without warrants (also irrelevant in this context), or even in the extreme could sentence them to death in absentia.

So, as nice and civil as your sentiments are, all they say is that you accept safe haven for our enemies, without fear of retribution and you hope that if we behave nicely towards them, so that they do not have any reason to fear us, then they will stop trying to kill us.

Why don’t you just call yourself a pacifist and be done with it?