Rather than following John Wager's tack of identifying with
a wrongfully accused person sent to Gitmo, I would identify
with those whose lives have been saved by having the enemy
combatants in the slammer or dead. Since we are at war, I
would rather err on the side of winning the war than on the
side of abstraction and sentiment.
For that reason, I think we should execute all the guilty
people there, as enemy combatants, after having extracted
whatever information we need from them.
A truly outstanding Democrat President, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, convened a military tribunal on July 2, 1942 that
sentenced eight "enemy combatants" to death. Two had their
sentences commuted, and six were executed on August 8, 1942
in Washington, D.C.
So to follow FDR's lead, we could bring them here, try them,
and execute those convicted of being "enemy combatants."
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