filtherton

In other words, we are at war against people who want to destroy our way of life, so in order to deter them, we will voluntarily dispense with some of the very things that make our way of life valuable, like respect for the rule of law or faith in our system of criminal justice or our expectations of privacy or the idea that the president can't order extrajudicial assassinations of American citizens.

Is the idea that we can get the terrorists to stop hating us for our freedoms by getting rid of our freedoms?

On the subject at hand, I don't have a problem with it. All these folks should be charged in the criminal courts, where, you know, standards typically help ensure that the accused receive a fair trial using appropriately gathered evidence. While I have no doubt that military courts would successfully convict guilty folks, I also have no doubt that it is practically a statistical certainty that the government will use flawed evidence to convict people who aren't guilty.