Shapiro: When you don't appreciate your civilization

MY COMMENT:

Excellent piece, Ben! FYI, as you brought up former President Obama's comments regarding justice at the US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he and his then Attorney General, Eric Holder, did all they could to extend Constitutional rights to the unlawful combatant detainees held there. They did this by ammending the George Bush Military Commissions Act of 2006 into their own 2009 version (which is still in place). The result of the overhaul was that since 2009, any detainee at Gitmo who is accused of war crimes receives virtually the SAME rights that you or I would enjoy in a federal court of law. The Geneva Conventions and Law of Land Warfare extend NO extra legal privileges to those who are not lawful combatants. Yet, the benevolent US, under the direction of Obama and Holder, along with a complicit majority Democrat Congress at the time, decided to give the store away to those NOT entitled to it. This is one of the very sad reasons we are still trying to prosecute at least 10 alleged war criminals held at Gitmo, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, planner of the 9/11 attacks and confessed murderer of Wall Street Journal reporter and US citizen, Daniel Pearl.