To paraphrase Bertrand Russell, your logic is impeccable, but your premise is wrong, making your conclusion irrelevant. Guantanamo has proven repeatedly that we are incapable of accurately assessing from a distance whether or not an individual is truly a terrorist #resist #endwarhttps://twitter.com/NGrossman81/status/980419392835112961 …
To try them, you need to arrest them first. Or you could try in absentia, but then there’s still the question of what to do after. What to do about a convicted-in-absentia suspect has the same challenges. Capture, kill, or let go?