My post at Volokh about what to do with the Gitmo prisoners gave a lot of Lawyers who post there the "vapors." I just posted this response.
The admin made the mistake of letting you people treat them as "criminals." They are not. Any more than the German spies who came ashore during WWII were.
But now most of you are bogged down with discussions of their "rights." They don't have any "rights." They are non-state actors and can be treated as we please to treat them. The only international law that can be cited is in treaties that we signed, not laws and regulations set up by others that we are not bound to observe.
That means we can kill them when we find them fighting us. That is what I meant by "shoot on sight." We have no obligation to try to arrest them and read them any "rights." If we do take them prisoner, we can use a Military Tribunal and shoot or otherwise dispose of them. Our big mistake has been to keep them alive. It allowed the Left to make an issue of them, which is precisely what the Jihadists want. The Al Qaeda Manuals have instructions on how to act in prison in order to make yourself a "victim" and gain sympathy.
This is war, not policing. General Pershing, while a field officer in the Philippines, was very successful in putting down Muslim uprisings. One thing that is supposed to have worked for him was to bury the Muslim dead in pig-skins and publicize this action. Cut down on the number of volunteers for martyrdom.
For those of you who are familiar with the HBO series, DEADWOOD, adopting the plot idea of "sending the bodies to Wu" is excellent. Wu was the head of the Chinese community in Deadwood, and owned a large pigpen. Whenever Al Swearengen, the local Tavern owner, would dispatch someone, he would have one of his henchmen load the body in a cart and dump it in the Wu's pigpen. Cut down on Boot Hill burials.
If we had done something like this during the take-down of Afghanistan, it would probably have drastically slowed the recruitment of new Taliban and Al Qaeda members.
Of course, this is all "woulda, coulda shouda" now. The International Left has been highly successful in making "victims" out of these Salafi Jihadists.
I read a post here that proposed that we should talk to them and find out what they "really want." We know precisely what they want. Osama has written about it in detail. They want to take over the Mid East, set up a Wahhabi-run Caliph, and kill anybody how gets in their way.
We are engaged in what Historians will end up calling a "long war." We are facing the "Swamp" full of Islamic barbarism that is breeding Salafi Jihadist "Alligators."
There are two main sources of Alligators in this Swamp. The Sunni based Wahhabi Theology that comes from Saudi Arabia, and the Shiite "12th Imam" Theology coming out of Iran. These two creeds have hated and fought each other for many centuries. But they will band together to fight us whenever, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" makes sense for them.
We need to recognize that this is what we are up against. Until we do, we don't have any chance of defeating them.
Once we do understand this, our mission will be to kill the Alligators while letting the rise of "Globalism" drain the swamp.
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