Criminal Trials For Terrorists - A Pay Off to Trial Lawyer Lobby

For 8 years in this war we've employed an odd, assortment of  practices to deal with enemy combatants in our war against "terror."  The legal quibbling of the Bush administration lawyers didn't help nor did renditions and quasi-torturing.  Worse, this change of adminstrations, puts the issue into the hands of Democratic lawyers, who by tradition are silly prevaricators extra-ordinaire (remember Elian Gonzalez, Ruby Ridge and Waco) .   There is still the possibility that we will spend hundreds for millions to criminally prosecute and defend Sheik Kalid Mohadmed in a show trials to make OJ Simpson's trial look like TV's "Law and Order".

We got ourselves into this mess because of some odd words we called it a "war on terror" and the enemy called themselves "Holy Warriors" but didn't want to treat them as soldiers,   So let's treat them, for what the are, enemy soldiers.   So, we will have to put them in prison camps until the end of the war, and so we will wait it out, comes 10 or a hundred years.   Those soldiers we take will not see freedom.  They will rot in jails, without special meals, big screen TV's or special prayer rooms and no chance of a martyrs death.  So let's see if that is a deterrent, because that the idea of spending a life time alone, scares the hell out of me.

If and when the compatriots leaders surrender and the war is finally ended, and there are no attacks for say ten years, we begin war crimes trials for the most blatant war criminals.  These new POW camps will have features unlike like those of Stalag 17 or Hogan's Heroes Stalag 13, they will be maximum individual isolation camps, Supermax prisons.  There our prisoners will be deprived of the human touch, sight or word.  No hope of escape and total isolation as their reward for going against us.  Changing hearts is far more difficult than changing minds.

In depriving these Holy Warriors of their matryrs deaths, our enemy will wither as their fate is televised to the world from which they came, as a reality TV series and the would be martyrs are dissauded by the boredom promised. 

Americans want to end wars quickly, but this war is not going away, and we must employ our own concept of "protracted warfare"  and mercilessly employ the boredom to kill the will.