We're not at war, though, and a lot of people in Guantanamo aren't combatants. At all. You'd think it would be silly for the military to capture people off the street or from their home simply for suspicion of being somehow related to the insurgents, locking them up and throwing away the key, but we've done it several times. You'd think it would be silly to kidnap people from other countries or coerce their governments to kidnap them so that we could extradite them to a secret prison to be tortured, but we've done that, too. It's not just that these people are captive, but that we're using illegal techniques to try and extract information from them. You can't torture POWs, that's a war crime. It's even worse considering we're not even at war.
Talk to
Murat Kurnaz about being a prisoner of war. Ask
Al-Qurani. Ask
Mohammed El-Gharani. I could go on and on and on. Stop pretending that everyone in Guantanamo is some battlefield-hardened insurgent or America-hating jihadist. Many aren't. Many are innocent people named during torture cessions by other innocent people that are kidnapped by the US.
There are innocent people in Guantanamo. This isn't about a "police point of view", this is about stopping an unbelievable injustice. If you're ever kidnapped off the street, extradited to a prison in a country that allows torture, and are held there for years, I'll fight for your release tooth and nail just as I do for all the other innocent people.