I don’t disagree with you completely about Cheney but the patriot act was also passed by Congress. There are over three hundred politicians, dem and rep, also responsible for that.
You know what they did to hard cold SS nazis when captured on the battlefield? They shot them dead then and there. There was no gitmo,
I’m sorry IF you are going to war and risking your youth. You do not leave irredeemable killers like SS officers and Taliban commanders to live so they can try again. Try them and execute them or do it in the field.
It war, it is violent horrible business. It should be prosecuted quickly and definitely and brought to an end never to resurface.
Or it should not be ventured into,
Make that decision before you send troops off not after.
If cost lives to both sides and it should be so costly few will ever wish to return to it.
Fewer will die in the long over time because all sides will count the cost before they venture into it