So give them trials and execute them. I have no problem with that. But just holding them down there seems stupid to me. What's the point? If we think they've actually done something, give them a trial and convict them. Personally I think most of them are just Joe Mohammeds who were picked up "fighting for their country". Just as Joe Americans would be here. Doesn't make them terrorists.
When you speak of a "trial," you mean a civilian type trial with an open court, access to the evidence by both sides, right to counsel and cross-examination, a jury, etc. Is that right?
There's no way I'd support that for terrorists -- there's no way we can transport CIA agents of special forces operators to a courtroom in GITMO to give depositions and testimony and be cross-examined. We need those people elsewhere in the world -- not cooling their heels for months during a discovery and trial. And what they have to say is classified information that will get others killed if released.
I'm sorry if some hapless goat herder get hurt in our war -- and I'm sure it happeneds. But it's very rare, and it's war, and unfortunately some people do get hurt to prevent much bigger harm.
Garbage.
Considering that most of them are from outside of the country in which they were caught, what country would that be?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that is precisely the reason that why most of them are there.
Joe Jihadists in foriegn countries, in no uniform, just there to kill us.