Since I'm pretty sure I'm never going to be scooped up off the battlefield while shooting at Americans, yes, I'm confident I'll never be in the situation that those terrorists now find themselves.
Since a reasonable argument can be made that your position on this issue is not just un-American, but blatantly and treasonously anti-American, I wouldn't be that self-confident, if I were you
. Perhaps, a future government will conclude you are dangerous for some other reason. Also, don't you think somebody some day could claim he saw you shooting at US soldiers? Doesn't have to be true, you know. Didn't you have any enemies in high school
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US government has never claimed everyone there was "scooped off <a> battlefield shooting" at anyone, Americans or Marsians (in fact, it has repeatedly confirmed the opposite) - this is pure and simple your own invention, the thing you choose to believe without ever having been told this by anyone in the know. Since we don't know the identities of those who have committed suicides we don't know why they were where they were. A lot of people who have been released from Guantanamo over the years just happened to be in a wrong place at a wrong time, or have made enemies of some of the US informants, etc. Nonetheless, it took years for the interrogators to conclude they never did anything.
It is the logic of any bureaucratic machine: somebody else arrested the guy because he had some reason I have no clue about; if he stays where he is, there is no harm done to me personally, but if I order his release, and it turns out he was dangerous, my career is over. Remember the story of a poor Nepalese Hindu man who got arrested filming his neighborhood in Queens (he was planning to go home and wanted to show something to his friends back in Nepal). Accidentally, and without any knowledge of the fact, he filmed the local FBI office, and got booked. Within a month FBI concluded he was no danger whatsoever, but it took over a year to have him released (and it would have never happened, if the FBI agent who dealt with this case didn't take it personally that the higher ups were refusing to approve the release of an innocent man).
Just think of it: tomorrow you go to Toronto and accidentally take a picture of a Mounties' office. Can you be sure that some over-zealous Canadian official does not decide you are a terrorist? That's why we have trials, you know.