| Super Moderator  Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Seattle (grew up around D.C.) Gender:  Posts: 8,019 Country:  Points: 30,040, Level: 100 | Level up: 0%, 0 Points needed |  |  The problem with calling people "enemy combatants" is that it is very vague and allows our government to avoid following the rules of the Geneva Convention. They can pretty much call anyone an enemy of the USA and throw them in prison without a trial.
This is simply not acceptable behavior no matter how you semantically twist the argument. --- help me Instant Runoff Voting, you're my only hope --- There is little doubt that the world in general is more liberal than it was 50 years ago and beyond. Conservatives are simply roadblocks on the path to an ever more progressive and liberal world. What a sad existence. |