Oddly enough, had these been genuine POWs, it would be very illegal to hold them in a supermax.
This isn’t the first time we went to war against a non-state entity. If you don’t want to call it a war, then I’d be curious to know what you call the Civil War (or was that the Conflict of Northern Aggression to you?).
The real problem you’ve got is that you’re not only dismissing U.S. policy now, and dismissing those diplomats and Senators going back to (at least) 1949. You’re throwing out sections of the Geneva Conventions, which was an int’l treaty argued over by various nations. Add to that the Int’l Red Cross, which (I think around 1960) wrote an analysis of their interpretation, explaining the background of the writing of the treaty. They’d have disagreed with you, too. We never would have ratified a treaty such as you’re imagining; not this administration, not any before, and not any of our allies.
As I said, there are better solutions, but they require that our enemies agree to respect some human rights. It’s one thing to fret that they don’t care about human rights. It’s quite another to dismiss asking them to.
