Even with the best court system, Krauthammer says that this isn’t about comparing ourselves with the rest of the world, but about comparing ourselves with our traditions:

“I’m not sure that FDR, or Lincoln, or any of our war presidents, or Johnson, or Kennedy would take a combatant and give him the constitutional rights of an American citizen and give him a trial in civilian court. That doesn’t happen.”

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