Are we really having a debate in this country about how we treat terrorists? Is anyone really under the assumption that terrorists sit around debating how they are going to treat us? Obviously, they sit around debating about us but its not whether or not they want to kill us, because thats already their stated mission. The only debate they are having is the means by which they will reach their desired ends. Am I the only one who finds it ironic, nay idiotic, that some of us are wanting to give terrorists the rights that they actually despise or that we're going to make them privy to the very judicial system for which they have no desire to be involved in.

Of course, there is the argument of "if we don't treat them better than they treat us then how are we any better than them?" Well, we aren't flying planes into their buildings. We're not blowing up their embassies or their naval vessels. We're not making videos of the beheadings of their citizens. We're not BAKING their children and then serving them on a platter. We're not burying torture victims in mass graves. It is utterly sickening the moral relativism that some people will practice just so they can have a reason to protest or to find something wrong with the U.S. They want to blame the U.S. first and foremost without even thinking that maybe Gitmo and these other anti-terror measures we've been taking since 9/11 have kept another attack from occurring. No, looking at things objectively and with sincerity is not what those types of people care to do.

The bottomline in this whole debate is this: you don't go into a shootout with a knife. You don't go into a streetfight with one hand tied behind your back. If you do, you're one of two things: an idiot or a really big idiot. The fact that some would purposefully tie the hands of the members of our military and intelligence services is an incredibly dangerous and idiotic idea. Tell me how interrogation methods that are actually performed on our own troops in their survival training should be considered torture? Are they uncomfortable and painful? More than likely, but that doesn't make them torture and if one person gets "tortured" to save thousands of lives have we really broken any moral codes?

Its time that we all realize we're in a war for our survival. This isn't like the wars of the last century. This war can hit any of us anywhere. What will be our course of action when those suicide/homocide bombers we hear about in Israel start walking into our shopping mall and supermarkets or getting on our public transportation. Will we not use any means necessary to prevent those attacks then? So why should we not use those means to prevent attack NOW?