Common Criminals or Enemy Combatants?

Miryam Lindberg, AT "Yet Obama's circumstances are different from Bush's. The latter didn't have the benefit of hindsight; 9/11 happened unexpectedly and became a horrid call to action. The U.S. political and legal systems were not prepared for the onslaught. Passenger planes as human missiles? The strategy against jihadism had to be delineated from scratch and on the go. Today we know the jihadist enemy and his intentions much better. Bush's untested and much-maligned normative approach kept the country safe and provided new instruments to deal with jihadism, yet Obama came to power on the wings of anti-Bushism."