Skylar
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they are enemy combatants captured during a time of war. We should hold them until the war is over. Let us know when ISIS and al qaeda surrender.
We're not at war with Afghanistan. Or in Afghanistan.
And the Taliban isn't ISIS or Al Qaeda. Indefinite imprisonment with no trial, no charges, no conviction, and sentence is ridiculous. If they're prisoners of war, then they fall under international law and have certain rights.
This 'right free zone' where we suspend the law, constitution and international law is not an American value. And harms us far, far more than imprisoning these men helps us. As it demonstrates that we don't actually believe in the values you espouse.
And is a literal recruiting tool used by our enemies to assemble fighting forces against us.
first, the US constitution applies only to US citizens or others who are in this country LEGALLY.
US law certainly applies to the US government and our military. And there's no provision for indefinite incarceration of people without charges, trial, conviction or sentence save as prisoners of war. Prisoners which possess specific rights under the Geneva conventions.
By we don't extend those rights to the Guantanomo prisoners. Or the protections of our law. Or the constitution. Or international law. They are in a 'law free zone' where we make a mockery of empty lip service to 'rights' and 'freedoms' and the 'rule of law' by demonstrating that we really don't believe in them.
And it is this gross act of hypocrisy that our enemies use to recruit orders of magnitude more men than we've imprisoned. We're allowing the barbaric acts of others to make us abandon our own ideals. And that's a fool's game.