Desperate to cut spending in Washington's time of fiscal austerity, President Barack Obama has proposed increasing the fees for working-age retirees in the decades-old health program, known as TRICARE. After years of resisting proposed increases for the military men and women who sacrificed for a nation, budget-conscious lawmakers suddenly are poised to make them pay a bit more for their health care, though not on the president's terms.

The current fees, unchanged in 11 years, are $230 a year for an individual and $460 for a family. That's far less than what civilian federal workers pay for health care, about $5,000 a year, and what most other people in the U.S. pay. link

While initial increases will be modest, "future increases starting in 2013 would be pegged to rising costs as measured by the national health care expenditure index produced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which projects 6.2 percent growth." The Republicans are making hay on this issue by recommending tying any future increases to military retirees' cost-of-living adjustment, which this year was zero or rejecting any increase at all.

"I strongly believe military retirees have made significant down payments through their dedicated service to the nation," said the subcommittee chairman, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C. "In view of that service, it is not right for the nation to ask them to pay more for the health care for which they are entitled as all citizens are being personally challenged financially by rising gas prices."

The kidnapping of Eichmann is not fully accepted by all international law practioners....jurisdiction by kidnapping is troublesome.....but Eichmann was a unique case I would argue.

We could put the Nazis on trial because the war was over and we had won.  Bin Laden and al Qaeda were still operational and plotting against us.

If we could have taken out Hitler, is there any doubt that would have been the right thing to do?

And I could name others but will leave it for them to out themselves.

As with our hiring known Nazi higher-ups -- many from the SS -- to go work for us in our spying against the Soviets, and to work on certain of our advanced military systems.  A few other high-ranking Nazis we allowed to quietly escape or seemed largely indifferent as to whether they were brought to justice.

Germany had already unconditionally surrendered before they had their day in court.

Prior to that event, we killed a $hit-ton of Nazis, without trial.