Stop wriggling Kevin - YOU were the one who stated that in your opinion it was worse.

You must also take into account why they were taken:

In the case of those taken by Hezbollah in Beirut - they were hostages, pure and simple, the purpose of their captivity was to exert leverage and draw attention to a "cause". Those captives did not know from one day to the next whether they would live.

In the case of the detainees at Guantanamo, they were captured in the course of an armed struggle. The purpose of their captivity and their interrogation is to gain information. In the pusuance of that, they are not being systematically beaten, they are not chained up in total darkenss, in solitary confinement 24 hours a day. Those deemed to have not been members of Al-Qaeda, or possessing any information relating to that organisation, have been, and are being released.