[QUOTE=Syn7;1258621]The problem is that like 80 detainees are cleared to leave. Free to go. But because of the hospitality, the fear is that if they weren’t enemies before, they are now. I think they should shut it down, move them all over for proper trial, and if people who wish to do harm are released, so be it. Learn from it. Take the medicine, man the fuck up and do what’s right. It’s ridiculous to walk around spouting off lines from the constitution, talking about freedom, then doing stuff like this. It’s counterproductive and it’s straight up wrong. I have no issue with leaving terrorists in a deep dark hole, but there needs to be a legit process that everyone can get behind. As far as where to send the detainees who are let go, send em back where you got em. If the host country has a problem with that, too bad. You think Yemen is gonna give up their cushy position over this? They will bitch and whine, but they’ll get over it. If not, fuck em.[/QUOTE]
Its not just about getting their nation to take them back. This isn’t about those that are terrorists. This is about the ones that were innocent before. What’s more humane? Locking them up or sending them back to a country where they will almost certainly be executed by the locals that are terrorists? This is the argument some are having who aren’t willing to ball up and accept responsibility. The correct answer, we abducted them from their own home. A home they no longer have. The only moral resolution is to give them a life on US soil. And the consequences of that, they will be what they will be. But democrats won’t make the move because it’d be political suicide. And republicans won’t because, they’re republicans and have no shred of moral accountability.
Maybe, but that will never happen. Also, I think it’s likely that a good chunk of those cleared were not friends in the first place. Having them reside on US soil, with all the cost that will go into watching them forever, simply isn’t gonna happen. All the options suck. From what I can tell the best of the shitty options is to send em off with a care package. Obviously I have never spoken to a gitmo detainee, but I have to imagine they would rather be anywhere than where they are. If it was me, I would rather go home and take my chances. It’s basically either prison or that. What other realistic and actually doable option is there?
And obviously renditioning people like they have needs to stop. I’m not saying they should never do it, but they need to tighten up their shit.
[QUOTE=Syn7;1258621] there needs to be a legit process that everyone can get behind.[/QUOTE]
That’s the heart of the matter. They want two sets of rules, our Constitution; AND an “anything goes” CIA/military way of doing things. The only reason to do it in Cuba is to keep it out of sight, out of mind; and avoid as much of our own laws as possible.
[QUOTE=SoCo KungFu;1258625]What makes you think they would all be going into a prison? Its not the guilty ones that are the issue. Its those innocent ones we abducted from a country because they were simply associated with someone suspicious.[/QUOTE]
I completely agree. Keeping them in Gitmo avoids dealing with legit trials. When you kidnap a bunch of tourists and lock them up for 8 years, it’s a whole lot easier to ignore in a foreign country than here at home.
Your right about the Republicans having no morals, but neither do the Democrats. If the did, they would have closed it down instead of taking a more politically expedient path. Is there that much difference in doing the wrong thing because your evil or doing the wrong thing because it benefits you?