We have detained--interned, imprisoned, whatever--tens of thousands of people in OIF. And many of the people doing the detaining are not trained detainers. That's how Lyndie England happened. Those detained will almost inevitably be released, so they are retrained to be productive citizens instead of terrorists. This is how counterinsurgency is done. We need I/R specialists to do it. We'll need them when Iran collapses and refugees and al-Quds agents flow into Iraq. We'll need them when North Korea collapses and the same mix of refugees and enemies flow south. I/R specialists are good things to have for the next few decades.
OTOH, maybe they are using flag@whitehouse.gov to put together a watchlist and they will arrest us all and ship us to black sites in Area 51 manned by bored Guardsmen on AT ... yeah, that's possible.
Did we have trained detainers when our grandparents helped rebuild Europe and Japan?
Or did we just have policies that promoted freedom and capitalism and got the hell out of the way of the "natives" we liberated from oppressive dicataors"?
And didn't the highly centralized,planned countries all end up as "shining " examples,like East Germany,North Korea,Mao's China?
Reagan was correct in that government is more often the problem than it is the solution.