Reply #43: I'm glad someone is looking to US history for insight

[Aloha Spirit]

Not being an expert, first things to come to my mind are,
Are you referring to the detainees? How do we know they're actual members of terrorist organizations?
As far as the Nazis, which ones are you referring to? Some we killed illegally, some we detained indefinitely, some we tortured, but releasing Nazis back to Germany during the war was unthinkable.
the terrorist organizations have less defined edges than states which makes it harder to know what to do with them when an alleged member is captured.
Imagine if there was a terrorist cell run by people who played Dungeons and Dragons and you tried to arrest anybody who played dungeons and dragons (first thing that popped in my head). Anyone interrogated about if they play D+D could say no or yes, but to know the truth, you'd want evidence to prove it. With soldiers, identity is not much of an issue.
I don't know who the detainees are, but if your country were being bombed by another country who was trying to root out D&D players, even if you weren't one, wouldn't you have a legitimate reason to fight back against the bombs without being considered a terrorist? Not saying that's what happened with the detainees, only that we deserve to know more about these people who are being indefinitely detained.
Oh my, ... point is, war today is harder to understand for humans, along with just about everything else I suppose. But releasing captured soldiers back to their camps before the war is over--how can that ever be a good idea? If someone can prove that a detainee is an active solider in an actual war against us, then they should be detained until the situation changes.
I do know that if we weren't bombing civilians in other countries as much, it would be easier to find actual terrorists, and there would be fewer moral dilemmas to work out.