Perhaps, but you must understand they are there as an alternative to having been killed. The fact that there are so many prisoners of war in these recent campaigns is actually a positive statement about modern first-world military ability to control lethal force and use it only as absolutely necessary

These are not people who were captured in the heat of battle, with AK-47s smoking and grenades in their pockets.

Many (if not the great majority) of these detainees are being held because sombody told somebody else that "...I think Mustafa there is a terrorist" and the better safe than sorry attitude kicked in and off poor old Mustafa goes to the concentration camp, even though the most serious weapon he ever had was the tack hammer he used in his shoe repair shop.

Look around you, people! America used to be the most admired and respected nation on the planet. Now it is among the most despised. Using terroristic policies "because the other guys do it" is not justifiable. We used to be better than that. I really don't know whether we ever will be again.

tanstaafl.