The Obama administration said Friday that it would abandon the Bush administration’s term “enemy combatant” as it argues in court for the continued detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in a move that seemed intended to symbolically separate the new administration from Bush detention policies.I think that this may help sort out some of the fiasco of the failure to understand that the US Military is not merely a collection of welfare queens...
[ cf U.S. Won’t Label Terror Suspects as ‘Combatants’ ]
It may also make a distinction between members of an armed force, including the militias therein, and, well, mere terrorist organizations, state sponsored, or otherwise...
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Where law may become legal!