<Apparently, the captives in Cuba, and anyone else we capture overseas, have life sentences. They will not be repatriated in a prisoner-exchange at the end of the war, because the war is permanent. They will not be treated as criminals, they won't get lawyers or trials or sentencing. As this war goes on, their number, now hundreds, will become thousands, then tens of thousands. I wonder where we'll keep them all. >
After a decade or three, this will be like imprisonment of Japanese Americans during WWII, not to mention slavery and segregation of ASTM 6 people in the USA. A matter of shame and blame on the people who were just doing what came naturally at the time.
Too late for innocent people caught up in the mayhem and left to rot in a gaol or cage, without trial, justification or any judicial review. We could call them subhumans. Sort of like modern day slaves, who don't deserve human rights, because they aren't human, because they happened to look a bit wrong or somebody didn't like them, or made a mistake and put them in the cage. Not being American, that's about all they deserve. And Americans wonder why the rest of the world is a bit nervous about the USA on the rampage.
<As this war goes on, their number, now hundreds, will become thousands, then tens of thousands. I wonder where we'll keep them all. >
I think the place is called a concentration camp. If there are too many, there's always the final solution.
Actually, I don't think it's going to be a big problem because I think the WAT will be won, more or less. The numbers will become small enough to be handled by criminal processes, like Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Watching this space,
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