He needs to put his thinking cap on! OR, did he lose it? What an idiot!

So... it's more important for politicians to look like they care about protecting the American freedoms (even for those who don't deserve them) than it is to care about protecting the American freedoms?

No.

Pat Leahy is not protecting American freedoms however.

There is no precedent at law, in international, American, or English common law, that says that unlawful combatants are entitled to any rights whatsoever, let alone Habeus Corpus.

Leahy is so stupid, he doesn't even understand the law he is discussing.

MAD only works if both parties that have the nuclear devices would also be the launchers and the targets. MAD does not work if a warhead is passed off to a terrorist or non-nation state. So as soon as anyone does any testing, or if we can get a sample their nuclear material, we have to make sure we get the fingerprint of their nuclear material. Then inform the country that if the world should encounter any such nuclear explosions or material, the fingerprint will be used as the return address. Perhaps we should start the ADSS doctrine - Assured Destruction of Sender or Supplier.

Also, MAD would not have worked if Hiroshima and Nagasaki had not been bombed. Can you imagine what would have happened to the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis were it not for those two examples?

Detainees - The Supremes were wrong to extend the GC to non-signatories. Now maybe this would or could not work, but why didn’t the Senate just remind the Supremes that it is the job of the Senate to ratify treaties, and the Senate has never applied treaties to non-signatories. We may treat other groups according to our moral convictions and national agreements, but you can not extend legal status to an irregular force that answers to no nation state. This just seems completely preposterous to me. In which war has our service members received better treatment because of the GC? Perhaps for a few German POW camps, and even fewer Japanese POW camps, but it sure didn’t help the guests of the Hanoi Hilton. Well maybe if you consider torture and horrendous treatment being better than just being shot on sight.

On the other hand, if you extend POW status to the residents of GITMO, we better start building a lot more facilities at GITMO because those folks now have a life sentence. There will be no surrender signing on some battleship to end this conflict.

the only solution is for israel to disarm

"the only solution is for israel to disarm"

Is that right before the 'Final Solution'- marching them into the sea at gunpoint??
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If all US citizens disarm and commit suicide, that would certainly end the war too wouldn't it??

Exactly...

I didn't say US should disarm. I said israel. why not have a nuclear free middle east?