I humbly, sincerely submit that it's time for you to do what strong people do: admit it when they're wrong.

-- JonathanInTelAviv

I can admit it: you're wrong.

Are you kidding me? This is insane. When a civilian population elects a government that is openly spoiling for a fight with a larger, far more powerful neighbor, they have to expect there will be consequences. That's not to say that civilian deaths and injuries aren't a tragedy, but it's a tragedy that was in their power to avoid. -- knickname

The reverse is no less axiomatic: When a civilian population elects a government that is openly spoiling for a fight with a smaller, far more desperate neighbor, they have to expect there will be consequences. That's not to say that civilian deaths and injuries aren't a tragedy, but it's a tragedy that was in their power to avoid.

...no one else outside of David Duke and Pat Buchanan publish such one-sided rage filled bullshit about Israel - WinSmith

You do.

[Right] does actually [make right], at least in the near term. -- shooter242

Nonsense

...These aren't civil legal proceedings. They are essentially executive and military matters.-- Elephantman

This guy truly has no idea of what he is talking about.

It wasn't just the perpetrators of war crimes who were punished at Nuremberg; Julius Streicher, an editor, was convicted and hung because he used journalism to support crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg Trials established the precedent that those who use their positions of influence to incite and justify the slaughter of innocent civilians are culpable for those crimes, too.

If there is any real justice in the world, Thomas "Suck. On. This." Friedman will someday find himself in a docket at the Hague.

If they were not terrorists before they went to Guantanamo, they will surely have the proper motivation to be terrorists if and when we set them free. -- Steele The First

No doubt, but the MSM will have a different take on the blowback:

Military reports rise in Gitmo detainees rejoining terror fight as Obama eyes closing prison

By LARA JAKES | Associated Press Writer

4:49 PM EST, January 13, 2009

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Terror suspects who have been held but released from Guantanamo Bay are increasingly returning to the fight against the United States and its allies [emphasis added], the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Sixty-one detainees released from the U.S. Navy base prison in Cuba are believed to have rejoined the fight, said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, citing data from December. That's up from 37 as of March 2008, he said..."

http://www.newsday.com/topic/sns-ap-guantanamo-detainees,0,820068.story?track=rss-topicgallery

There's no question, as far as Ms Lakes and the AP are concerned, that they were terrorists before they got to Gitmo. No one need question whether these men, after years of illegal detention and torture, joined the fight because of their ordeal.

...[A]ny dead male Palestinian who was undeniably adult is counted as a "terrorist"...

It's easier to rationalize acts of terrorism by labeling the victims themselves as "terrorists"

...That means the destruction of many buildings, including schools and hospitals that Hamas is using. -- Goedel

That means indiscriminately killing innocent children and civilians

Does Israel have any other choice? -- Goedel

The commission of war crimes is always a choice, but never the only choice.

If the people who disagree with you are innately evil, then it's a OK to murder them, right? - Lotus feet

It probably wouldn't hurt you to Google or Wiki the term, logic, before submitting your next post.

"This coming from people that have squealed, squawked, and yawped for nearly a decade, while having absolutely no ability to change a thing. Kinda like junkyard dogs getting brought up short after full speed runs to the end of his chain. Now that's barking mad. Keep up the good work." -- shooter242

This coming from a person whose pathetic rationalization for every Bush and neocon crime and disaster over the past eight years has been either 1) "Article 2", or 2) "Clintondidit", while having absolutely no ability to change a thought, expouse a principle, or grow-up. Kinda like a village idiot and a mad hatter all rolled into one. Now that's barking mad.

Keep up the horrible work; it's very entertaining.

"In short, [a] crime has been committed, and [I] have no case" [, ...and no principles, no grasp upon reality, and no brains].-- Shooter 242

There, fixed it for ya'

Glenn why are you supporting massacres and coverups? -- shooter242

Shooter, try to keep it straight: Glenn doesn't agree with you.

Why can't you just say that Professor Kerr, the Fourth Circuit, Congress, the President, and the President-elect on the one hand, and you on the other hand, have a policy disagreement, and you think all these people are wrong as a matter of policy and as a matter of interpreting the Constitution? -- Asher Steinberg

Probably for the same reasons we can't just say that the WW II internment of Japanese nationals and Americans was merely "wrong as a matter of policy" or label the historical objections to American slavery as simply "a policy disagreement" and "as a matter of interpreting the Constitution". These abominations were also at one time supported by American leaders and courts, but they were still a threat to the Constitution, and they were and still are detestable.

Then as now, an assault upon liberty warrants more than mealy-mouthed denouncement.

If you think I am being unthinkingly biased towards Georgia... - Hackney08001

I don't, but phrases such as "Greenwald's Palinesque outrage", make it obvious that you're missing GG's point, that's all.

Read his post carefully, and pay particular attention to this sentence near the end:

Just as a matter of the most basic logic, one can find Government X repellent -- and even find its response to unwarranted provocations excessive and wrong -- and simultaneously object to being lied to about what Government X has done or is doing.