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		<title>Rules of Warfare</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dafydd has an interesting scenario of how badly the civilian trials could turn out now that another barrier has been removed in the eventual closing of Gitmo.  This reinforces my belief that we made a mistake acting as if the people we are fighting are other than terrorists.  Our enemy does not obey the rules [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dafydd has an interesting <a href="http://biglizards.net/blog/archives/2009/10/free_the_gitmo.html" target="_blank">scenario</a> of how badly the civilian trials could turn out now that another <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/10/15/us/politics-us-usa-congress-guantanamo.html?_r=1" target="_blank">barrier</a> has been removed in the eventual closing of Gitmo.  This reinforces my belief that we made a mistake acting as if the people we are fighting are other than terrorists.  Our enemy does not obey the rules of warfare and with few exceptions, they  not a member of a nation state.  With even fewer exceptions, they are not American citizens.  However, with all that. we keep granting right after right to these people.</p>
<p>As long as our enemy refuses to observe any of the rules of warfare. I do not see why we need to do anything more than what we would do to a normal P.O.W..  At the end of the war, we can send them home.  Of course when you declare war on a tactic rather than a specific group, it makes it hard to declare victory.  But just because we have done a poor job of declaring war on the right group that does not mean it is not war.  We delude ourselves by pretending this is a law enforcement issue.  As long as we approach terrorism as a crime, we will continue to be in this weird situation where the momentum is toward the courts and rehabilitation rather than punishment and victory.</p>
<p>- FOP Vermillion</p>
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