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Originally Posted by Rick Lee

Let me see here - non-U.S. citizens, captured on foreign battlefields, out of uniform, not belonging to any military of any nation state, deliberately targeting civilians, having declared war on the U.S. and not physically on U.S. sovereign soil.

How on earth would you know this? Sounds like you are simply parroting administration propaganda. I'd like the truth about who we have there, apparently it does not matter to you.

What other country would consider foreign terrorists caught in third party countries somehow entitled to that country's domestic laws?

If they were captured on a battlefield during a legitimate war, they would be considered POWs. The rules that apply to POWs are designed to protect our own people when they are captured, as much as anything else.

If you targeted and killed a busload of German students in China and were caught in Pakistan, why would you expect to be entitled to German constitutioal protections? If the world thinks Americans view themselves as the world police and the supreme moral and legal authority, this decision only reinforces that. If our laws apply to everyone everywhere, where don't our laws apply?

"A busload of German students in China?" This is just strange, bysantine logic applied to rationalize your position. I guess it's the only kind available to defending torture and indefinite secret detention of unnamed individuals, but still, you can do better than this. If you killed people in any country in the world, you would be subject to the laws of that country. Not thrown in a secret prison in a random 3rd country specifically to avoid certain laws.