The worst thing that faces any criminal anywhere in the world should be to stand a trial and to be jailed or whatever if was found guilty. But the biggest problem is that the people we're talking about are not criminals , they were never accused of any criminal charge! The question is why disregard the rights of some people and the sovereignty of some countries ?
 

I think if somebody was suspected of some serious criminal activity such as terrorism, the person would be jailed, anyhow, even if he or she was a US citizen, just to protect the public.

People accused of serious crimes, like murder, rape, are often jailed on different charges, before the evidence is gathered and they are ready to be indicted. They are sometimes held on parole violation charges, lying to investigators, etc. These are real charges, the main aim, however,  underneath them, is to protect the public.

It Takes More Courage to be a Mother in Iraq than a War Correspondent

Music as Torture

America's Cowboy Problem in Afghanistan

America’s flying death machines do not enjoy a favorable reputation in Afghanistan or among many of our allies. It’s a problem that only seems to get worse. “While no military has ever done more to prevent civilian casualties,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said from a podium in Kabul last year, “it’s clear we have to work even harder.” That was October 2008. More than six months later Afghan families are routinely decimated by U.S. bombs or obliterated altogether.

Super-aggression may thwart reproductive success

Interviews with elderly Waorani, a warlike Ecuadorian tribe with the highest rate of homicide known in anthropology, suggest that the most aggressive men acquired fewer wives, fathered fewer children, and fewer of these children survived to adulthood. http://chinese.eurekalert.org/en/pub_releases/2009-05/potn-050809.php

Press reports: Warriors don't always get the girl, http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/511/2, etc.

On manufacturing supermen: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227071.300-how-brain-chemicals-can-help-soldiers-keep-their-heads.html?full=true

WHEN the mortar rounds started dropping, David Wells and his US Marine Corps buddies knew what they were supposed to do - get under cover and try to locate the origin of the threat. But when they came under fire in the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2005, things didn't go according to the training manual. ...

Military training aims to instil the appropriate response to such situations as second nature, but the extreme stress of combat can cloud even the best-trained minds, making people act in confused and sometimes dangerous ways. Researchers are now starting to understand the physiological origins of this cognitive "fog of war", finding that the severity of soldiers' symptoms correlates with the levels of various hormones and neurotransmitters. This work has revealed why some soldiers manage to keep their head amid the chaos while others are clouded in confusion, and it has even suggested drugs and supplements which could one day help all troops to think more clearly under fire.

Such intervention might also reduce the number of lives - like Wells's - that have been shattered by post-traumatic stress disorder, since it seems soldiers who experience the greatest cognitive disturbance during combat are most likely to suffer subsequently from PTSD. Although war leaves its mark on almost every combatant (see "Battle lines drawn in the brain"), drugs that clear the mental fog during battle might significantly reduce the severity of the symptoms that linger long after the soldiers have returned home.

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A Drug to Weaken PTSD

The Guantánamo terrorists are lucky to be alive; in previous wars, they'd have been shot on the battlefield.

Hey, here's a nifty solution: send all those inmates to China!  They would certainly get a fair hearing in the Chinese courts, and the ones who weren't found guilty (and sentenced to death, thus) could "unlearn global jihad" through a decade or so in a láo gǎi camp.

Hmm...maybe communist dictatorships do have their uses....

Have Liberals Learned to 'Love War'?

With President Obama in office, some of the most vociferous antiwar organizations have become peculiarly complacent.

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Who Are the Taliban and What Do They Want?

Cole’s response (and the entire Moyers segment) provides a foothold on the mountain of nuance we’re missing in the coverage of what is now being called the “Afpak” war:

What we're calling the Taliban, it's actually a misnomer. There are, like, five different groups that we're swooping up and calling the Taliban.

From http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/64932/john-mueller/how-dangerous-are-the-taliban:

Why Afghanistan Is the Wrong War