So President Obama wants to close Guantanamo Bay? That's OK with me.
He also wants to change the terminology for the people who want to kill all Americans from "combatants" to "detainees". That's OK with me too.
Now all those renamed "detainees" can be moved to State prisons in a neighborhood near you. And that is also OK with me.
You see, it's pretty much common knowledge that those "detainees" have been treated with kid gloves since the controversy of "water-boarding" broke and became public fodder (Water-boarding: a form of "torture" to emulate drowning to gather vital informational intelligence from high-value Al Qaeda leaders who are killing anyone at their whim in their Holy War against Western Democracies).
These same "detainees" now enjoy many benefits that the detainees in our State prison systems don't enjoy. Maybe a long stint for those "detainees" behind bars in San Quentin with white supremacist gangs would do everyone some good (so long as they don't indoctrinate any new members into their homicidal Islamic extremist beliefs).
Now, what shall our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan do? Are they allowed by International and American laws to transverse the globe and imprison "ordinary people" abroad (AKA "detainees") and ship them back to the United States, put them on trial as common criminals, and sentence them to time in a U.S. prison? Since U.S. military forces will no longer be capturing POWs (prisoner of war), but only detaining common thugs that are trying to kill them, wouldn't it be simpler if our soldiers just kill them all and not detain anyone?
Then our soldiers can simply claim "self-defence" and loiter around a bit to wait and see if the local authorities want to arrest them for anything...
"Detainee", "combatant", "POW", or "criminal"....it's just a play on words. Changing the rules of the game and re-naming the players doesn't solve the problem, but killing all the "detainees" that would - and have, beheaded American soldiers and dragged them through the streets, would certainly help very much. And with the added benefits of not only eliminating potential (and probable) future threats, but would also save the taxpayers a fortune on courts and prisons - and at the same time send a very strong message to the enemy as well... "Fu*k with us and you will be next."
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