You know about all those harmless, misunderstood, in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time, "alleged" jihadis that we've got down in Guantanamo Bay?

We've released some of the ones that we believed were mistakenly captured. Unfortunately, we've been wrong. As early as 2004, the United States military was discovering that former Gitmo illegal enemy combatants had suckered the smartest intelligence officers the military has and returned to the fight in Afghanistan.

Russia reports today that another released Gitmo detainee has been killed -- waging jihad near Chechnya.

The United States -- at least the administration currently in charge of prosecuting the war on terrorism -- is not intentionally foolish. We're releasing prisoners who, to the best of our ability to determine, pose no threat to the United States. Yet, we keep on getting it wrong. We've theoretically have more evidence, more suspicions, more reason to believe that the detainees we still hold are a danger to civilized people everywhere, yet the American left wants these people brought to American and put on public trial -- with the same standards for evidence that got O.J. Simpson acquitted. These terrorists were captured on a battlefield, yet the loony left and the so-called human-rights lobby want them tried as though they merely committed a murder in Brentwood.

I was reading an op-ed by one of the leaders of these human rights groups and he was calling for Congress to "restore habeaus corpus rights" to the unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo. Restore? In times of war enemy soldiers and spies -- especially those captured on the battlefield -- have never had habeaus corpus rights. For those of the dwindling few who still remember World War II, do you remember lawyers demanding hearings for all those captured German soldiers held on U.S. soil?

Some do believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact.