>>Eric Holder may turn out to be Obama's Rumsfeld. I do not predict a good outcome in this more than bone-headed decision.
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>>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704888404574547681569546414.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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>I agree with the decision to try some of the high profile Guantanamo prisoners in New York. If we are afraid of our own judicial system, they have really got us on the run.
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>I think a lot of times who you consider extremist depends on your own views. The strongly conservative consider liberals extremist, and vice versa.

We are not afraid of our judicial system. It is a question of what is appropriate. This decision will have long term consequences and ramifications for all future conflicts.

So, soldiers now must read enemy combatants the Miranda warning when captured? Are soldiers now no longer part of a government militia to protect the constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic, but rather a police force? Will soldiers captured in Iraq or Afghanistan by enemy forces now be tried by local governments (which typically means warloads) and no longer kept as prisoners of war and protected under the Geneva Conventions?

This whole thing is a farce and the most idiotic thing this administration (or almost any administration in our history) has done! Until the U.S. leaves Iraq and Afghanistan, all those captured laying bombs, building bombs, shooting at our soldiers, spying on our soldiers, etc should be held as prisoners of war and protected under the geneva convention. When those two countries can maintain their own peace and government and infrasture and the U.S. and other nations leave, they should be held as long as they are determined to be a threat to the U.S. and her allies. They are clearly at war with the U.S. and breaking international rules of war by targeting civilians, journalists, and killing soldiers when captured.

What happened when the French resistance was captured by the Nazis? What has happened in all previous wars when civilians spying and fighting were caught by enemy forces? That is not the answer, but these are organized groups fighting and even financed by states and organizations and should be treated as enemy forces even without a uniform.

The international community needs to look closer at the rules of war and the Geneva Conventions and make adjustments for the new fighting forces.