During the dark days of the Bush administration, the United States of America held hundreds of innocent terrorists without charge in a maximum-security detention facility in a communist country. Barack Obama was elected on a promise to end this injustice, and just days after taking office, he issued an executive order promising to keep that promise. It was a victory for American values, but it is now being snatched away by Republican obstructionists.
Read the whole thing; it's hilarious.
On a more serious note, what are we to do about Guantanamo? I don't like the idea of holding people indefinitely without some kind of due process, but what exactly can we do with these people? It seems like every one we release ends up fighting against us again and I don't think they deserve the full US court treatment.
The best answer I can come up with is to get the hell out of Afghanistan and release them back there. No other country has ever been able to pacify the region and I think our chances are just as slim.
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