Your ideas may sound good on the golf course or in a classroom but they work in the real world any more than the Neocon fantasy that we would be "greeted as liberators in the street" did.

The Supreme Court decisions makes perfect sense in an actual war but we are not at war. The concept of a "war on terror" is rhetoric and describing our efforts in war-terms continues undermines our actual chances of winning such a "war".

The terrorists on 9/11 did not attack us with our own passenger airliners as the first wave of an invasion. They have no army, no uniforms, no government, no flag and no intention of capturing NYC or taking any US territory.

Al Qaeda are terrorists which makes this a police matter, plain and simple. And soldiers dont make good police. They arent trained to be police and people dont see them as police.

These suicides and the government's reaction to them is more proof that they just dont get it. How can anyone succeed if they dont understand the problem in the first place? We cannot kill our way out of this mess.

4 years have passed. We have spent $300B of tax dollars and over 100,000 people have been killed by our troops or terrorists and yet we still dont seem to be any closer to the end of this so-called war.

Iraq has become the very haven for terrorists that we said we wanted to prevent. Nice work.

Suicides change nothing

By Douglas W. Kmiec

USA Today

Tue Jun 13, 2006

In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that "the capture, detention and trial of unlawful combatants" is important in war for the purpose of preventing "captured individuals from returning to the field of battle and taking up arms once again."

The unfortunate suicides of three Guantanamo Bay detainees do not change this.

We are fighting an unprovoked war on terror that began in the 1990s with the radical Islamic jihad "to kill Americans wherever found." It has included assaults on our military personnel in Somalia, the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, the destruction of U.S. Embassies in Africa, the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, and the unrequited murder of nearly 3,000 civilians on 9/11.