Afghan men in Kabul in February after they were freed from the United States prison at Bagram. Syed Jan Sabawoon/European Pressphoto AgencyFrom IBDeditorials:
War On Terror: A federal court says that even those held in Afghanistan must also be tried in American courts. Why not? After all, if there is no global war on terror, how can anybody be prisoners of that war?
Although the "war on terror" no longer exists, we still have the "overseas contingency operation" in Afghanistan. They are still shooting at us and we are still shooting at them.
We are still capturing and holding what used to be called enemy combatants or even that more archaic term — prisoners of war.
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My Comment: This commentary makes some good points. How can we say that we are at war when the government itself prefers to use different language. What is even worse .... is that this lack of leadership in Washington and the use of lawyers and judges to dictate military and war time policy in a conflict zone .... this confusion and uncertainty is only going to end up having innocent civilians and soldiers being killed on the battlefield.