[Urbane Guerrilla]

I doubt they are not being treated as prisoners of war: caged, fed -- well -- not serving a criminal sentence but being kept off the playing field of this conflict. The quibbles made about their status are administrative only, law being part of administration. This is the point I am trying to press -- we are acting in accordance with humane ethics and not simply tidying up loose ends by hanging them summarily upon arrival. We don't lust after their blood the way they're repeatedly telling us they lust after ours (anyone think they're kidding around?), and that has been evident in everything we've done. Contrast that with the likely behavior of, say, ancient Rome or the Soviet Union.