As far as I can tell, this means that while someone's finally acknowledged that holding a 15-year-old Canadian child in an American gulag as a war criminal was kind of a bad move, they still don't exactly know what to do with him.
That's a rosy way to look at it... They just messed up and they'll legally screw him better when they next lay new charges.
You complain that he was old enough to be shot and arrested, after he tossed a hand-grenade? Come on. That's well-deserved of anyone tossing a hand-grenade in a combat situation.
As for the rest, no one deserves it, so his age has little to do with it. Sure, it's worse because he's young. But there's little debate among us that it shouldn't happen to anyone. He should be sent to a civilian court, where a judge would determine how he could be charged and at what level.
As for the citizenship issue, the failure of two (or three?) successive Canadian governments to demand his release (like the British did) is even more galling, in my eyes. In terms of citizenship, our government has more to answer than even the U.S., although that's because of the U.S. behaviour, in this particular case. It's one thing to torture "enemy combatants", it's even worse when you see your friends do it to one of your own citizens and not bat an eyelash.
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That's a rosy way to look at it... They just messed up and they'll legally screw him better when they next lay new charges.
You complain that he was old enough to be shot and arrested, after he tossed a hand-grenade? Come on. That's well-deserved of anyone tossing a hand-grenade in a combat situation.
As for the rest, no one deserves it, so his age has little to do with it. Sure, it's worse because he's young. But there's little debate among us that it shouldn't happen to anyone. He should be sent to a civilian court, where a judge would determine how he could be charged and at what level.
As for the citizenship issue, the failure of two (or three?) successive Canadian governments to demand his release (like the British did) is even more galling, in my eyes. In terms of citizenship, our government has more to answer than even the U.S., although that's because of the U.S. behaviour, in this particular case. It's one thing to torture "enemy combatants", it's even worse when you see your friends do it to one of your own citizens and not bat an eyelash.