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Originally Posted by Bakkels
As SkyBird already pointed out, the facility was deliberately placed outside the US so that normal POW laws don't apply or could be more easily worked around.
And to say that they are not mistreated... well, let's just say there are a hell of a lot of organisations and people out there that would contest that. (The Red Cross, Amnesty International and the UN among others)
And when would that be exactly? As the US aren't officially at war with anybody, 'until hostilities are over' is quite arbitrary.
There are Pakistani prisoners there too, and as far as I know, there's no war with Pakistan. Wouldn't that mean that they deserve an immediate trial?
That's a dangerous numbers game you're playing there. Just because this fraction of innocents (of which we have no idea, since they are denied trial) is too small for you, the existence of Guantanamo and what they do there is just fine?
And this doesn't make you lesser as a people, that would just be generalizing. It is an indication however that the US government have made an incredible mess of things.
First invading two countries for all the wrong reasons, then randomly arresting people for being at the wrong place at the wrong time, bringing them to a detention camp, not allowing them any form of trial and completely disregarding human rights, and now they have no idea what to do with them. I think some criticism would not be entirely out of place..
There's a certain number of people among them that are guilty, but keeping everybody there without giving them any legal status, thereby denying them any form of trial 'until the hostilities are over'.... well I just can't see how you can defend that.
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I think tater is of the mindset "the victors make all the rules." That being said, if someone ever came to his home that happened to be in a battlefield and detained him, his wife or kids prisioned for life just for being there, he obviously would have no problem with it, after all they're just minor numbers.
What's worse, it would probably be our government do it, not an invader.