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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Quick question everyone: 9/11- act of war or real bad crime?
wonk, I'm putting you down for "crime."
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I disagree with Wonk. Pick one. Either one. And fucking stick to it. Personally, it would seem advantageous to treat it as a crime, to analogize Al Queda to the Mob or a drug cartel, and to actually be able to apply punishment toward the perpetrators.
But what we
don't get to do is treat it as neither, changing the rules as we see fit. We don't get to say it's an act of war and so we can hold prisoners indefinitely without charge (as though they were prisoners of war) and then say that they aren't prisoners of war (and so are not eligible for the protections of that status).
