David Ignatius on Killing vs. Capturing Terrorists
David Ignatius has an important column today about the legal mess that is our fight against al Qaeda. He writes:
Every war brings its own deformations, but consider this disturbing fact about America’s war against al-Qaeda: It has become easier, politically and legally, for the United States to kill suspected terrorists than to capture and interrogate them.
The entire issue, and Ignatius’ column. speaks to the frustrating lack of an enduring legal framework for this conflict–one that is nearly a decade old.
Here’s one issue with a pervese sense of bipartisanship–no one in either party wants to do anything about it. And so the tenth anniversary of the so-called “War on Terror” approaches and we still lack the legal framework, both domestically and internationally, to wage it effectively.
