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There are some understandable reasons, although a US Senator shouldn't be in thrall to them.
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First, atrocities, like 9/11, stick in people's mind. A similar actions by similar people, regardless of the scope, draw an immediate connection. So people might viscerally react by wanting to treat them as enemy combatants, even though our declaration of war was hugely non-specific and still didn't cover these two. But, as a Representative member of our legislative body, Senator Graham should be able to think beyond that.
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OR, he might think that his constituants are too stupid to understand anything but animal justice. I wouldn't want a Senator who thought that about me, but Lindsey has been able to represent South Carolina longer than I have, so who knows.
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Of course, I think that Senator Graham is a graven publicity whore and doesn't really give a shit about anything but getting on the news and looking tough. A bully, if you will, that has the US Army to back his sorry ass up.
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We are a country of laws. We are a country that doesn't meet out justice based on prejudicies or unfounded conclusions. At least that is what our country was founded on and our elected officials swore to defend.
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Giving him the benefit of the doubt, let us hope that it was reason number 1, and he changes his mind after he has a moment to ruminate on it. After all, again, thinking the best, the Senator has to think of the welfare of all Americans - maybe he just overreacted early.