The idea behind calling them ‘enemy combatants’ is that they are not prisoners of war so you don’t have to afford them the rights the Geneva Convention grants p

The idea behind calling them ‘enemy combatants’ is that they are not prisoners of war so you don’t have to afford them the rights the Geneva Convention grants prisoners of war. You can’t torture or degrade prisoners of war. That’s why the US calls these people ‘enemy combatants’.