"The truly scary thing about all of this is that we're living in an
age where some very strange decisions are being made about who deserves rights,
and who doesn't. Someone shooting at an American soldier in Afghanistan (or who
is even alleged to have done so) isn't really a soldier, and therefore isn't
really protected by the Geneva Conventions, and therefore can be whisked away
for life to some extralegal detention center. We can kill some Americans by
drone attacks without trial because they'd ceased to have rights once they
become enemy combatants, a determination made not collectively but by some Star
Chamber somewhere. Some people apparently get the full human-rights coverage;
some people on the other end aren't really 100 percent people, so they don't."