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Originally posted by spinningfetus
Show me bin Laden's head on a stake, I won't flinch, but then say we are done, or if not at least share a plausible plan with concrete goals and a forseeable end.
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Isn't it a little too early to assume this won't happen? It's only been 9 months since September, fer chrissakes. Getting bin Laden wouldn't be the end of it, but crushing al Qaeda and related terrorist networks probably would be.
We are at war. Or in a war. Or conducting a war, or whatever you want to call it. It's not as well-defined and it's a little harder to put our finger on than many wars we've been in, but we're still at war.
During a war, you hold enemy combatants and try to get information from them to help you in the war. When the war's over, as it one day will be (when either our objectives are met or the public gets tired of it), you try them or return them to their country or whatever.
And Padilla is an enemy combatant. It doesn't matter that he's an American citizen if we have reason to believe he was working with our war enemy and planning to kill Americans. We are at war, and he is an enemy combatant.