[richlevy]

Originally posted by Undertoad
What kind of insanity is this? In what court would you charge them? Maybe the Belgian courts where they charged Tommy Franks with being a war criminal?

In some kind of court. If a soldier is taken prisoner during a war, he is returned after the war is over. If a person commits crimes during war, he is tried, convicted, and imprisoned.

We are witnessing some kind of muddled version mixture of the two where combatants and anyone in the vicinity who might have been a combatant are scooped up and examined for close to two years to prove their innocence, then when it is exhaustingly clear that they are completely innocent, they are given a package and returned. Compounding the issue is the fact that some of these men are citizens of countries we consider allies.

If its not a military court, and its not a civilian court, and its not even a tribunal, what is it?

I want some degree of safety, but I also do not want my government to go to extreme lengths to guarantee my safety in the short term with implications for the long term.