Quote:So far I can tell everyone agrees they need to be tried and sentenced. No ones saying the indefinite detention is ok. The argument is if non-citizens captured by military personnel should be tried in a criminal setting state side.


I argue requiring military personal to treat the battle field as a crime scene is unrealistic and not possible. Secondly non-citizens captured over seas by military personal are not automatically covered under our national constitution, it's not a global document.


There's a vast difference between a crime scene and a battle field. I support trying all the prisoners under a military tribunal as war criminals and sentencing them appropriately. Then closing gitmo on the grounds we are establishing a base on foreign soil against the host nations authority, that's an act of aggression we should have ended years ago.


But you can't give non-citizens captured on foreign soil the same constitutional rights established on our homes soil.

The only other option than Military Tribunals (that I can see) would be to prosecute them in International Court like they do war criminals such as the Nazi Party...But then, where would you hold them after sentencing, who would be responsible for paying the court costs and legal fees? I'm not in tune with international court, but I suppose they have a procedure in place...

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