re: #427 McSpiff

Under the Geneva Conventions, POWs were allowed to be held for the duration of hostilities.

Given that the jihadis are hoping to fight and sustain a generational conflict, permanent detention would follow.

However, the Geneva Conventions really didn’t anticipate a permanent state of war either… so you have a move to do something about holding them that ends the detainment at some point.

Necessarily ambiguous.