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RE: So Pony Up The RIGHT Answer
All prisoners should have been given the same treatment as our law requires to be given to an American citizen.
Fair enough, and a noble sentiment. However, in practical implementation it has some flaws. Organized crime trials might be a good model because these guys have a tendency to have their accomplices make witnesses "disappear" before trial and get off.
Remember the World Trade Center bombing of 1993? A lot of people forget that one, but these guys had al Qaeda affiliation (sort of a precursor group). The trial gave al Qaeda a bonanza of information on what we knew about them, how we collect our information on them, and a plethora of other concepts to allow them to evade detection and pull off the 9/11 attacks. We need to find ways to give these people fair trials without giving the other bad guys out there a playbook to do it better next time.
Also, for the record, I am totally against torture for a number of reasons, just to clear that up. For one thing, it doesn't really work, and secondly this is a war of ideas. The center of gravity here is convincing people inside and "outside" our system that it works and is worthy of their participation (democracy, rule of law, etc.). If we don't follow our own rules, why should they believe our system is better than, say, Sharia law, which many currently advocate?
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