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Tom Brosz — (archived)

David is right. In previous wars, uniformed soldiers were held in detention camps, supposedly under the Geneva Convention, although for U.S. soldiers held prisoner, especially since WWII, Geneva treatment was the rare exception, not the rule.

They were held indefinitely, until the war was over. None of them got trials in the enemy country, unless they were show trials for propaganda. Certainly none of them expected legal representation for release before the war's end. I don't know where the hell the idea that P.O.W.s get lawyers comes from.

Enemy soldiers without uniforms were shot as spies. End of story.

Now, we have enemies in civilian clothes, part of no organized army, but killing us nevertheless. You tell me what we're supposed to do. Put them on trial in the U.S., with activist attorneys playing it for all its worth? You'd love that. So would the prisoners. With any luck, they could become leftist gods, like Peltier, Abu-Jamal, or Padilla.

Let them all go? Yeah, that works.

What is happening is each case is being looked at by the military (Combatant Status Review Tribunals) and judged individually. Oh, they don't have Ramsey Clark defending them, so I suppose none of that counts. Maybe not perfect, but better than the alternatives.

But again, this is much more about attacking an administration than defending inmates.

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