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Originally Posted by AChimp
Considering that other industrialized nations don't try to find loopholes in international treaties ("Oh, they're not prisoners of war... they're um... combatants."), I'd say, yeah, you'd probably be treated better.
POWs are POWs. Name, rank and serial number is all they have to tell you.
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Are you sure? Do you know what France has done with Carlos Illych Sanchez Ramirez? (I may have just butchered his name, but thats Carlos the Jackal)
Anyway, they are being treated real well. They are cared for, they get counseling and plenty of other things we think are neccassery.
But, what would you have us do with them? They are in a legal and political limbo. Who has jurisdiction? What are they charged with?
So, lets ay we release them all. Then, one of two things happens:
They go backto their home countries, get welcomed as heroes, rearm regroup and fight again and kill more people (don't kid yourselves into thinking they will just be Americans). Thats what happened when we let Qadaffi handle those airline bombers about 10 years ago.
Or, they go back to their home countries and their governments capture thm and do things that would make Jeffery Dahmer cringe. How does that sit with the human rights' activists? You know the US will take heat over handing the prisoners over into that.