"Dave" wrote
....... As I understand your position it's that if one
person in authority looks at a prisoner and says "I think he should go to
jail" or "I think he should go to Gitmo" that's a "trial." .....

That's right! If the prisoner is captured sans uniform or ID card
international law allows it. It may be arbitrary and even barbaric by our
US/UK standards but that is exactly the way most of the world does things.
More important that is the way the people we are talking about do things,
the was they treat themselves, and that is the standard they are trying to
impose on us, and others, by terrorism.