Killing them like osama, blasting them with a drone or detaining them in gitmo means the terrorist have won, because they have dragged the system down to their

Killing them like osama, blasting them with a drone or detaining them in gitmo means the terrorist have won, because they have dragged the system down to their own level. Those were acts of war, and prosecuted under those rules (international law, Geneva Convention, etc), rather than domestic criminal law.