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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (5033)	3/6/2003 6:19:45 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Confusion is because I did not really understand what you were saying here: Zonder.. there doesn't have to be a tribunal for Al-Qaeda until after the "war" is declared won.. War crimes trials for captured Nazis (prior to end of WWII) were not conducted until the end. And the Nazis were at least lawful combatants as defined by your so-called international law.. :0) But as someone posted previously, unless Al-Qaeda leadership swears adherence to those same Geneva conventions, there really is no obligation to treat them as POWs. They are terrorists. Or more appropriately, militant criminals... And since International Law is nothing more than a series of bilateral/multi-lateral treaties, agreements, and customs, and Al-Qaeda adhers to none of them, they are owed no protection by them... International Law is not the kind of statuatory law you find internally within a country.. As I stated before, its only as powerful as the nations enforcing it upon the rest of the world. Let the Islamo-Fascists have their way and international law will be Sharia.. Hawk