Quote Originally Posted by SurfDemon
Ah, but here's the whole point, who decides who gets human rights and who doesn't? Is it a court of law?...
These things used to be decided by a treaty called the Geneva Convention. It was an agreed upon set of rules for wartime engagement and the treatment of prisoners of war. It was the terrorists who have expressed utter contempt for these rules, not the United States. Yet these same terrorists are given a pass and never, ever held responsible for their actions. Only the United States is ever taken to task for not keeping our end of an agreement that our enemies have a blatant disregard for.

Quote Originally Posted by SurfDemon
would you prefer a government where enemies of the government get "vanished"...
Nobody has "vanished" - we know exactly where our enemies are. I consider this to be a good thing. If American citizens were being locked up without trial I would have a problem with this. But we are talking about terrorists who's sole purpose in life is to kill as many infidels as possible. Women, children, all are legitamate targets in their eyes. Insisting that people like these should "get their day in court" assumes that they can be rehabilitated and become productive members of a society that they want to destroy...

You may have sympathy for these people, but I do not.