It's not "Un-American", its War. Too many people have a really backwards view of what war actually is and how it is waged. These combatants are not some guys dragged off an American street for selling dope. They aren't entitled to trial in an American court. They are subject to the Geneva Convention. The Geneva convention is not kind to non-uniformed combatants, which these monster's are. They really are not entitled to anything but a bullet in the heart.
The reason is because the Geneva Convention was created in order to protect civilians in a time of war. To differentiate civilians from enemy combatants the GC incentivised wearing uniforms by offering special protections to uniformed combatants. By not wearing uniforms the Taliban made civilians targets, which of course is part of the battle plan of the Taliban. I don't care if they spend the rest of their lives hanging from their toes.
Claiming that releasing them is the only solution because of a bogus interpretation of what is and isn't "American" ignores the entire History of warfare and undermines the purpose of the GC which was designed to protect
civilian populations from animals like the Taliban. These men SHOULD suffer for not following the GC. All your way accomplishes is giving the Taliban more justification for ignoring the GC.
Your attempt at high mindedness has supported releasing
these dogs back into Afghanistan in a years time.. Please read:
1. Mohammad Fazl
One of the first detainees captured in Afghanistan to be transferred to Guantanamo — in January 2002 — Fazl is the Taliban’s former deputy minister of defense. He was one of the Taliban’s founding members, rising through the ranks to become Taliban Chief of Army Staff when it ruled Afghanistan. Human Rights Watch accuses Fazl of presiding over the mass killings of Afghanistan’s Shi’ite Muslims in 2000 and 2001.
2. Mohammad Nabi
The former chief of Taliban security in Qalat, the capital of Afghanistan’s southern Zabul Province, Nabi was a latecomer to the Taliban, joining only in the late 1990s. After taking a few years away, he rejoined in 2000 to work as a radio operator for the Taliban’s communications office. He has claimed during U.S. military interrogations to have been working for the C.I.A. in the search for Taliban Chief Mullah Omar and al-Qaeda operatives. Those confessions may earn him difficulties upon his release.
3. Abdul Haq Wasiq
Also accused by Human Rights Watch of mass killings and torture during the Taliban’s time in power, the Taliban’s former deputy minister of intelligence is considered to have been at one time one of Mullah Omar’s closest confidants, with a direct line to the elusive leader.
4. Mullah Norullah Nori
Nori was the senior Taliban commander in the strategic northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif when U.S. forces arrived in late 2001. A former governor of two northern provinces, he is considered to be one of the most high-ranking Taliban officials ever to be held in Guantanamo. He is also accused of being involved in the massacre of thousands Shi’ite Muslims in 2000 and 2001, when the Taliban attempted to purge Afghanistan of what it deemed a deviant form of Islam.
5. Khairullah Khairkhwa
The former Taliban governor of Heart Province, which borders Iran, Khairkhwa has also served as a military commander and a minister of the interior. He was close to Mullah Omar as well as current Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who briefly worked with the Taliban administration in the 1990s. According to the Associated Press, Khairkhwa’s U.S.-based lawyers have argued in court filings that by the time of his capture in 2002 he had already distanced himself from the Taliban.
It is amazing how much death and destruction people can willful put in motion for a false vision of what war is, or should be. The Afghani people cower at your good intention.