Plane Bomber Must Get Military Tribunal

This terorist and all Declared Combatants (Out of curiosity, when do they "declare?" When they undertake a terrorist act, get their Terrorist Training Degree, get a Mission Assignment?) should be charged and tried in Military tribunals. This is a Declared War, on both sides.

That this war is found and fought on non-battlefield domains makes it no less a war.

Why can't this government and some politicians and the Attorney General accept this?

Is it politics? An attempt to justify weakness and lack of resolve with misguided and erroneously drawn devotion to "Democratic" principles?

Isn't it enough that in addition to this Soldier's declared membership in Al Qaeda, he acknowledged proudly his Al Qaeda-sponsored terrorist training in Yemen, as have others? If he had been successful, don't you think Al Qaeda would have taken "authorship" responsibility?

His chosen Field of Combat was an airplane; as others have so chosen.

We are irrational if we expect to be able to choose the time and place of combat, other than when conducting military operations against soldiers and facilities we have discovered through intelligence.

Is this any different than when we discovered and bombed Iraqi airfields and military facilities? German Ammunition dumps in WWII? Vietnamese underground tunnels, soldier's barracks, supply lines and training facilities?

We should manifest charges and hold a trial in a properly chartered Military Tribunal, and establish an appropriate POW facility. (Wait! I have an idea! Guantanamo! A legitimately chartered and managed POW camp, with Military Courts already in place).

Let me also point out then even though Guantanamo is a proper venue, we have already released Combatant Soldiers who have returned to their "battlefields " of choice and have attacked the U.S. -again.

We guarantee our lack of effective and sustained strategy when we let our enemies dictate the choice of battlefields, and then thank them for their strategy by failing to make our appropriate and justified response a surety; a policy that enemy combatants will be handled as prisoners of war, tried when necessary for war crimes, and jailed or executed as appropriate.

If this "war' lasts for 20 years, so will their jail sentence. After all, war prisoners in previous wars weren't repatriated until the way was over.

Perhaps that will give some pause to their Sponsors and to their willing participation.

Although, now that I have said that, what makes me think that an unsuccessful suicide bomber would be somehow apprehensive about a life sentence if caught? After all, he was willing to pay a much higher price; his actual life.

Try enemy combatants wherever and whenever caught; if convicted, "suggest" that their country of capture, or their home country jail them until the war is over,or bury them if that is a result of their trial and sentence.

I am convinced that when Osama bin Laden and his AL Qaeda and terrorist brethren go to bed at night they say, "What were they thinking? If I get caught, what a great way to avoid real consequences."

Catch terrorists, try them, and let the world know that Terrorism against the U.S. is a losing proposition.