I'm not ignorant of history and i know they are not US citizens. I was making the point that holding these people will lead to incrementalism whereby US citizens could one day be held without charges.
I actually pointed this out more clearly on another thread.
I don't see that happening as a result of Gitmo. As a result of judicial tyranny, maybe, but not due to our treatment of terrorists picked up on the battlefield. Treating terrorists as if they have rights is actually destructive of our own, since it divorces rights from the reasons why they are legitimate.
Actually, a few of them are citizen traitors.
But the way I see it, if you're a citizen and you're caught fighting for the enemy, you lose your rights. That's how we treated German-American turncoats during WW2.