But in this context, one must also acknowledge that WTC was also OK. I do not accept that. Neither do you.
I certainly do not.. Because the perpetrators were non-state actors, not servicemen of another nation which has declared war upon the US (were this the case, we would be bombing cities in said state)...
Thus, these were criminals, but criminals who, because they have formed a "supra-national" cartel of terror fall between the cracks of international law. That's why the captive members have not been tried as criminals, but held in detention.
But yet, because their group leadership has declared war upon the US, they are also combatants and thus POWs. Thus, they can be held indefinitely until the war is "over", which could be a very long time.
I'm not a lawyer and don't pretend to understand all the trivialities involved in determining their status. But I do know that they represent a significant danger to the very civilization we have fought so hard to create and maintain...
Thus, while I'm not for cutting off fingers, or spraying them down with water and applying an electro-shock treatment, I'm all for sodium pentathol/amital, sleep deprivation, and if necessary, taking their relatives into custody... Whatever means, within reason, are necessary to "push the right buttons" and get them to tell us what they know (not what they think we want to know).
And if other countries use other methods, I'm not going to be overly critical of them, so long as they are not torturing innocents who have no participation/sympathy for these militants.
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