Guantanamo Redux

[Lion]

My point is that you've decided that they are a terrorist without a trial. You've inferred that they are guilty. I don't care if the prisons have TVs and Playstations, decent treatment of the inmates does not excuse the fact that there are other issues that are being ignored. I care about the ones who are innocent, but in there for years with no trial. I care about the boy who was captured, and put in jail for years, and again, no trial.

[DuncanONeil]

The individuals that are engaging in combat action with the military forces of nation-states currently are not members of the armed force of any nation.
Being captured on the field of combat results in detention. Said detention, during the time of conflict, does not grant anyone a trial. Such individuals are typically detained until hostilities cease.
As such releasing anyone before cessation of hostilities is actuially quite compassionate. That compassion has revealed that in many cases it was misplaced as the very same individuals were again caught engaged in combat action against uniformed personnel.
I make no protestations as to guilt or not, that is not my purview. But if they are engaged in combat action against troops detention is a valid response.
You dismiss humane treatment as immaterial, yet the treatment received by inmates of the detention facility is far better than that a prisoner can expect in any CONUS prison. Your fixation on the efficacy a trial to accord proof is sorely misplaced. The US justice system is not balanced, nor is it concerned with justice.

My point is that you've decided that they are a terrorist without a trial. You've inferred that they are guilty. I don't care if the prisons have TVs and Playstations, decent treatment of the inmates does not excuse the fact that there are other issues that are being ignored. I care about the ones who are innocent, but in there for years with no trial. I care about the boy who was captured, and put in jail for years, and again, no trial.