On second thought, let’s not close Guantanamo
Guantánamo in 2013 is a far cry from Guantánamo in 2002. Thanks to the spotlight placed on the facility by human rights groups, international observers and detainees’ lawyers, there has been a significant, if not uniform, improvement in conditions.
The majority of Guantánamo detainees now live in communal facilities where they can eat, pray and exercise together. If moved to the United States, these same men would most likely be held in military detention in conditions akin to supermax prisons — confined to their cells 22 hours a day and prohibited from engaging in group activities, including communal prayer. The hard-won improvements in conditions would be ratcheted back half a decade to their previous level of harshness.
And Guantánamo would no longer be that failed experiment on an island many miles away. The Obama administration would be affirmatively creating a new system of detention without charge for terrorism suspects on American soil, setting a precedent and creating a facility readily available to future presidents wanting to rid themselves of a range of potentially dangerous actors.
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And, more importantly, there is a Democrat in the white house. AND not just any Democrat, but the Democratiest Democrat to ever Democrat it up in Democrat town, Barack “six pack saviour” Obama.
Ugh. 4 more years of this crap…
Gatsu on January 11, 2013 at 9:22 AM
In other words,
Notice to JournOlisters: You are to take the old chainlink fence photo out of your Gitmo stock and replace it with the more representative gitmo photos from when it was completed. So says Obama, so it shall be done.
MechanicalBill on January 11, 2013 at 9:28 AM
Bookmarked for 2017.
The Count on January 11, 2013 at 9:29 AM
And where else would we inter the gun nuts after the NRA is declared a terrorist organization?
/libs
Ted Torgerson on January 11, 2013 at 9:32 AM
Oh no no no no no you don’t. The original leftist ranting about Gitmo was indefinite detention without trial, and that is still occurring.
Dress it up all you want but people’s “rights” are still being “violated”. You hypocritical trash.
Bishop on January 11, 2013 at 9:32 AM
Yeah, she’ll “unexpectedly” have more thoughts on this later when a Republican takes over.
HotAirian on January 11, 2013 at 9:45 AM
AVENGE ME!!! AVEEEEEENGE MEEEEEEEE!!!
BigGator5 on January 11, 2013 at 9:52 AM
What a liar! They have reported on the more than decent conditions and communal living for years. She gives the false impression that it was obammy and these dishonest human rights organizations that caused this.
Blake on January 11, 2013 at 9:57 AM
What she meant to say.
CurtZHP on January 11, 2013 at 10:13 AM
Tomorrow’s editorial:
The comedy writes itself here.
Good Lt on January 11, 2013 at 10:39 AM
Amazing how Journalistas can change opinions based on what party is in the White House.
antipc on January 11, 2013 at 11:07 AM
Heh….don’t you have to acknowledge first that you are at war? Wouldn’t you want to know who the enemy was? Maybe try to understand the enemies motivations and how he operates?
No, you are not at war, you’re being drained by the enemy with a thousand cuts and enemy advisers instruct you how. It already looks too late to escape the trap that has been set for the West by Islam. A long dark road of self induced stupidity about Islam stretches out ahead. It is so much longer when you are sleep walking it.
BL@KBIRD on January 11, 2013 at 11:26 AM