re: #57 buzzsawmonkey

When in the history of the world were “civil liberties” extended to enemy combatants in wartime?

And why should they be now?

WWII. We treated Nazi prisoners humanely even though many were the lowest form of Jew-executing scum. All we had to do was apply the Geneva Conventions to terror suspects and none of this would have become an issue.

It’s because we chose to simply ignore international conventions over the past 8 years that we are being forced to accommodate these terrorists within our own legal system. Does anyone else see this?