President Obama today talked about transferring the remaining Gitmo detainees to other countries. I hear there are about 48 prisoners remaining. He wants to send them to countries like Saudi Arabia...
And he thinks Guantanamo was abusive? Once the detainees enter a Saudi prison, no one will ever see or hear of them again.
Or perhaps they will come to a maximum security facility in the US. Two things are going to happen there. Either they are going to get shivved on the yard, or they are going to open a radical training center in C-block.
Now as to security. Jihadists who may have wanted to spring their buddies from Gitmo had to get by either Castro or the Marines. But if the detainees come to, say, San Quentin? It is a relatively minor problem to walk up to the gates and make trouble. And I don't even want to think about visiting day.
Every President makes a few gaffs in the first year. And there is no "good" solution to Gitmo. If they weren't jihadists and radicals when they went in, they are now, after years of detainment. But we need to think clearly about how bad they really have it at Guantanamo, and whether our compassionate solutions are not many times worse for them, and more to the point, for all of us.
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