A short argument in favor of using the Geneva Conventions for captured terrorists

From the Geneva Conventions:

SECTION II
RELEASE AND REPATRIATION OF PRISONERS OF WAR AT THE CLOSE OF HOSTILITIES
Article 118
Prisoners of war shall be released and repatriated without delay after the cessation of active hostilities.
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The latest Islamic Jihad will be going on for decades, if not for generations. Therefore we are going to need long term solutions to incarcerate captured terrorists.

I would argue that we must treat captured terrorists as prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions rather than the half-assed legal mish-mash we now have. We must do this for one reason and one reason only; under Geneva, enemy combatants may be held FOR THE DURATION OF HOSTILITIES. As it stands now, we already extend all the conditions of the Convention to the Guantanamo terrorists EXCEPT the ability to hold them indefinitely. By not wanting to call captured terrorists POWs, the administration has created a legal monster that can no longer be controlled.

As we now see, what to do with Islamic terrorists captured in future engagements is a major problem if we are expected to give them civil trials and or release them before hostilities are concluded.

Under Obama, it won't be long before the Gitmo prisoners will be turning our judicial system into an even larger political grandstand while being aided and abetted by the ACLU et al. The looming legal circus undermines our credibility and muddies our ability to effectively deal with captured terrorists now, and in the future.

To those who say we will miss crucial intelligence, I say most good intelligence is obtained through kid glove handling and questioning. For those rare cases of imminent national threat, the president should retain the authority to utilize special interrogation for critical prisoners.