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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
Sentencing an innocent to jail after a fair trial is not analogous to sentencing an innocent to jail with no trial.
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POWs don't get trials until hostilities are over.
There is only one possible way to do this. Let all terrorists win. That's it. Or do you think that we can have Napoleonic battles where all combatants dress in bright colors, and line up away from civilians and fight like men? As long as the enemy intentionally blurs the distinction between combatants and noncombatants, as long as they hide among innocents, etc, ad nauseum, then engaging them ALWAYS will result in a % of innocents being killed. Always.
Every one of those deaths, and every innocent loss of liberty is not the fault of the US. It is the fault of the "terrorists" (I'm using that for these combatants who willfully violate rules of war designed to protect innocents). If you rob a bank, and a guy in the bathroom has a heart attack and dies during the robbery—completely unaware that said robbery is taking place—the robbers are now
murderers. If the enemy (AQ, for example) wanted to reduce innocent deaths, they'd wear uniforms. Instead, innocent deaths help them because they can rely on the (unwitting, I hope) aid of people in the West willing to blame the wrong side.
That said, it's very progressive of us to treat them well, and make the effort at great cost to harm as few innocents as possible. Good for us.