RE: however, back in the discussion...
"......the point many of disputants in this fragfest are trying to make is that stooping to low standards does not help your just cause...." Believing you can fight any war, let alone one against religious nutters, without horrible things happening to possibly innocent people caught up in the cross-fire, is simply naivete of epic proportions. Whilst we may try to avoid it happening as much as possible (and unlike the Taleban who execute their own on the merest suspicion of treachery or collaboration, we do have rules), it is inevitable that some innocents will be wrongly accused or punished in amongst the massively larger number of "bad guys" correctly identified and detained.
During WW2, the Brits detained very large numbers of foreigners on the suspicion they may have helped the Nazis. Similarly, the Septics detained Japanese, Italian and German families as a precaution. We are talking about tens of thousands of people, not a few hundred. As well as the 11,000-odd Germans interned in the US, 4,500 Germans were shipped to the US from Latin America alone, and interned for the duration fo the War, which makes the modern extradition program look tiny in comparison. All were questioned and there is no doubt some were interrogated more roughly. Are you saying the whole war against the Nazis was "wrong" because of that? Grow up.