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I am not sure what else you thought it was for. If you bring the "detainees" to US soil you are unable to hold them indefinitely without classifying them as "POW's." If you classify them as POW's then you by extension adopt the Protocols of the Geneva Conventions that we intentionally refused to sign on to for the sole purpose of not allowing terror movements and groups such as the PLO to get Geneva Conventions protections. Further, classification as "POW's" brings in a whole list of new rules that we must abide by when holding these people. It also raises the question that in a war such as this (crossing borders, fighting non-state actors) how do you determine when the "war" is actually over? Without this distinction, it then becomes next to impossible to abide by the Geneva Conventions for "POW's" because the war will legally never end.Ok... I will. Congress approved it. Have a problem with it, talk to your Congressperson.
I am not sure what else you thought it was for. If you bring the "detainees" to US soil you are unable to hold them indefinitely without classifying them as "POW's."
If you classify them as POW's then you by extension adopt the Protocols of the Geneva Conventions that we intentionally refused to sign on to for the sole purpose of not allowing terror movements and groups such as the PLO to get Geneva Conventions protections.
Further, classification as "POW's" brings in a whole list of new rules that we must abide by when holding these people. It also raises the question that in a war such as this (crossing borders, fighting non-state actors) how do you determine when the "war" is actually over? Without this distinction, it then becomes next to impossible to abide by the Geneva Conventions for "POW's" because the war will legally never end.
Ok... I will. Congress approved it. Have a problem with it, talk to your Congressperson.
