Reply #113: I never claimed we would.

[RaleighNCDUer]

In the post you are replying to I said that we will try criminals as criminals, and hold insurgents as POWs until the end of the conflict - and believe me, the conflict is NOT the so-called 'war on terror', it is the illegal occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. We WILL leave both countries, and any insurgents we are holding will be released when there are no troops in their countries for them to shoot at. As for the terrorists, they will eventually be hunted down and broken, just as all terrorist organizations eventually are. They are criminal organizations, and should be treated as such.

You seem to be allowing the republican meme of 'war on terror' to drive your thoughts on the matter. There is no war on terror. There are three distinct conflicts - the conflict with the international terrorist organization of al Queda and its affiliates, the occupation of Iraq, and the occupation of Afghanistan. We have a conflict with terrorists in the first case - not a 'war on terror' - and conflicts with insurgencies in the second and third cases. The insurgencies are NOT at war with the US and its citizens - they are at war with an occupying army, and the insurgents are NOT terrorists. When the army leaves, the conflict ends.