You’d Think People Educated as Much as Judges are Wouldn’t Be So Stupid

Federal Judge Orders ‘Enemy Combatant’ Jose Padilla Charged Or Released

At what point did engaging in warfare against a country get relegated to a criminal matter? When did a legislature have to explicitly approve the military from taking POWs on the battlefield?

This is the problem on the left with this issue. The equate engaging in armed warfare against the state as an offense like murder. It’s not. It never has been. And no country in the history of the world has ever treated it as such. Ever.

Terrorism is no mere criminal act like blowing off fireworks on your back porch. It is an action of war and needs to be treated as such.

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John Bambenek is the Assistant Politics Editor for Blogcritics and is an academic professional for the University of Illinois. He is a freelance columnist who blogs at Part-Time Pundit and the executive director of The Tumaini Foundation which helps AIDS orphans and other children in Tanzania to get an education. He is the current owner of BlogSoldiers, a blog-only traffic exchange. | More from John Bambenek