Carlos:
Your naivety is astounding. Do you actually think you can try military prisoners captured on the battlefield in an american jury system? Does the idea of giving away confidential and classified sources and putting men’s lives in danger not bother you? Would you throw the books open on the classified technologies and techniques to allow the enemies of the USA to train better and avoid those techniqes? Do you think CSI can swoop down from Miami and do an investigation on a live battlefield? Do you think it is ok to just release a terrorist because the chain of evidence required for a civil trial is impossible in a combat zone? Should we just release these terrorists on american streets? After all, their own governments don’t want them back and I assume you are for against sending them back to governments that might torture or execute them? Do we spend billions of taxpayer dollars for high priced attorneys to get a bunch of terrorists off who would rather burn our children alive?
You sit there begin glib and academic without thinking things through in practicality. We don’t live in a theoretical textbook, we live in the real world. Do not attempt a reply without answering the questions above. Platitudes don’t keep america safe. People putting their lives at risk keep it safe and the life of a special forces operative in Afghanistan is worth a hell of a lot more to me than that of some stupid terrorist. And I personally don’t care one whiff about Kalid Sheik Muhamed’s bloody rights, or the rights of any of these other psychos. However, I do know that any civilian trial of KSM would fail due to half a dozen technicalities. Shall we just let him go with a pat on the head?
