Our country wasn’t founded on the idea that those of us here on this continent are superior human beings to everyone else in the world. Nope, the idea was that we’re all just regular blokes, even those who have titles like Duke or Earl or even the Duke of Earl. As such, we all have the same rights, everybody on the planet, because those rights are not given to us by the government, but “are endowed by [our] Creator”.
Now of course the Constitution, which creates a binding legal standing for those rights, does only apply to those of us fortunate enough to be American citizens. The rights themselves though are universal. So debating whether or not an accused terrorist has the right to a fair trial is nothing more than verbal masturbation. Terrorists are people too. People who are fucked up in the head and perhaps need to be put down with the careful insertion of a piece of lead into their brains, but people nonetheless and thus have the same rights as us.
That being said, the Founding Fathers recognized that some situations require denying a person the free exercize of his or her rights. Thus we have a judiciary system set up to decide if a particular situation warrants such a denial. To strip that power from the judiciary and hand it over the executive branch is nothing less than treason against the the Constitution and the beginning of a return to the very monarchy from which we rebelled.