Political Bloviation

The driver for Bin Laden gets a sentence of 5 whole months, after already time served. We debased our constitution for a 5 month sentence against a driver? It’s sad and Sullivan explains why:

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
If the administration had stuck to the Geneva Conventions, given all captives POW status not full, but basic, constructed the kind of trials that the US did at Nuremberg, we would not only have been able to use the prosecution of many of these terrorists to broadcast the difference between them and us, we could have kept the guilty from ever being released - at least until Osama bin Laden surrendered. Instead, we have detained and tortured countless innocents, made a mockery of Western standards of justice, pulled the rug from under the Geneva Conventions - one of the greatest achievements of the civilized world - and allowed terrorists and their enablers to run free after a few months.

Could they have ballsed this up any more thoroughly?

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