olive, you really are a bit of a worry! Here's you: "... and there is considerable legal argument that they should be held until the cessation of all hostilities (by the militant islam). That could be for a very long time..."
Here's what a great deal of the world legal opinion says: "... there is considerable legal argument that the US Administration should be locked up for crimes against humanity. That could be for a very long time."
They are not prosecuted because of technicalities, olive. Crooked technicalities of their own device: they will stand outside every world treaty so that they can impose -through their military toys- all their wishes upon anyone they want.
War was declared by the US. In years to come, the chapter in history books dealing with this will be headed "The Great Oil Wars."
