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Entry: Who Guards the Guardians? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/who_guards_the_guardians#29830 Post contents: @Christopher Roach, First contradictions is that you are saying that the defendants of Al Quada want to have it both ways, military and civilian protections. But you contradict yourself by suggesting that they are neither military nor civilian. They have to be one or the other and either way they are protected by some form of law. Secondly, not all the individuals taken into custody are even Al queda but have still been denied access to any kind of cuort. Third you seem to miss the larger point, that although we grant that they are not wearing uniforms, you clearly state that they are fighting us, not hear in the U.S. but in their own countries, at least some of the time. So they must then be at least permitted to fight an enemy who has attacked them illegaly by refusing to declare war by congress according to the rules of their own people, uniforms or not. Sent at: 2008 12 02