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Current Events » in reply to They are not being held as criminals, but POWs.

But if they were not fighting but were only caught in a dragnet...

...or turned in for a bounty (like being sold in an earlier era), then they are not really prisoners of war. They are just people being held for no particular reason except geography.

By that logic, anyone we don't like can be held in prison indefinitely. Just because. That's only part of what's wrong with this.

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