Agreed. Too much thinking, too little action on this. If someone is participating in active armed opposition to the US overseas, his legal citizenship status should mean nothing whatsoever.
According to the fine print on
MY passport, my citizenship becomes null and void if I do that.
It's the whole reason I saw no problem with treating Johnny bin Walker just like every other illegal enemy combatant when he was captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan. Choices have consequences, and life doesn't have "do-overs".