(CNSNews.com) - Democracies can respond more effectively to terrorism by embracing preventive military models rather than reactive criminal justice models, American and Israeli legal experts said Thursday.

With terrorists targeting the United States and Israel and using instruments of war, policy makers must recognize the flaws and limitations of a conventional law enforcement approach, the experts said.

Addressing a seminar in Washington, D.C., former U.S. assistant attorney Andrew McBride discussed the campaign against terrorism from a U.S. perspective. Col. Daniel Reisner, an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) legal advisor, discussed recent changes in his government's policies.

The two were participating in a panel examining whether in the fight against terror, law is an asset or a liability.

McBride argued that the Bill of Rights and U.S. Constitution are designed to protect American citizens and permanent residents, not foreign nationals. Only those who "pledge allegiance to the body politic" are entitled to receive these special protections - not foreign enemies, he said.

No, no, no, no!  Blame the country the sponge-brained liberal media types who hear this and go, "Oh... Oh! Oo oh!"  We're destroying poor peoples of color in Iraq and in the war on terror -- and we're "creating enemies" with our actions in the Middle East, when everybody with half a brain understands that we were attacked on 9/11, and for 25 years prior, without doing diddly-squat about it -- and we weren't attacked for anything that we've done to these people.  We're attacked because this is an ideological battle.  

Some people have trouble accepting it because they don't think it's possible. Militant Islamofascism, is an ideology, and they're very blunt and open, they tell us what their plans are. Wipe us out!

"Ah, come on! These guys? They're going to wipe us out?"

While it is appropriate for the courts to intervene where the rights of citizens are concerned, it is not appropriate that they interfere with the executive branch's pursuit of foreign enemies, McBride added.

Applying the criminal justice model to the "armed conflict with al Qaeda" is not a workable solution, because it would provide terrorists with too many advantages and opportunities, he said.

McBride said the Bush administration made the right call in declaring terrorists as enemy combatants. He rejected the argument that U.S. constitutional protections should apply once a foreign terrorist is on American soil.

"That's like saying the closer they get to the target, the more rights they have," McBride said. 

I lay this type of warped thinking at the feet of the Democrat Party in this country and the Drive-By Media and the entire American left.  

Well, anybody around the world who also hates us is going to find great comfort and courage in speaking out the same way.

The Democrats and MSM want  us to lose, They want this country humiliated. They want our military made a mockery of.  They are inspiring it, and they are rewarding it, by validating the authenticity and the legitimacy of a bunch of insane lunatics.  They are Anti-American to the core.  Hating the current president more than they hate our enemies?

For his part, Reisner commented on the legal challenges associated with dramatic shifts in Israel's military and law enforcement polices.

Three factors were responsible for altering Israel's approach to terrorism in recent years: the enemy's use of military technology and tactics, the scope of the attacks, and the scope of the causalities, he said.

Israel moved away from treating acts of terror inside Israel as a police matter, adopting a model that allows for a strong military response. This shift began in 2000 - when the second Palestinian violent uprising (intifada) was launched - and has accelerated since then, Reisner said.

The law did not accommodate the idea of a war between a nation-state and non-state actors, he explained. For this reason, it became necessary to set legal precedents.

This is an excellent point, the terrorists operate outside the realm of law and in doing so, forfeit any right to its protections.  The liberal left would have us believe that this is not the case.  However, this point is why I believe that all-out military force should be used against them…even to the point of destroying their Mosques that are used by their theocratic leaders to propagate terrorism.   

For the first time, the Israeli military was permitted to use its arsenal directly against terrorists and designate terrorist leaders as enemy combatants.

The Clinton administration did not approve of the approach, Reisner noted. Former Sen. George Mitchell traveled to Israel at the president's behest and after reviewing the situation advised the Israeli government to return to a law enforcement approach, he recalled.

Why am I not surprised ?