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Originally Posted by Botnst
According to the US gov the prisoners at Guantanamo are the worst of the worst. That's why Obama wanted to transfer them all to a stateside supermax. He couldn't do that so he left them in place.
Is it your argument that a 16 yr-old couldn't be trained to be a soldier? Or that a 16 yr-old is incompetent to understand the consequences of his actions?
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A 16-year old with limited literacy, knowledge of the world, and knowledge of the laws of war may well NOT have known the potential consequences of fighting for al Qaeda. All he may have known is that he was killing invaders or "bad people."
When we talk about an Afghan village, we're not talking about Podunk, MO, with access to books, the intarwebs, and CNN.