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Close Gitmo? THEN What?
If you wanna get elected president in 2008, the conventional wisdom says you gotta close down Gitmo. The Guantanamo Bay detention facility has become the focus of global protests against alleged “U.S. human rights violations” during the war on terrorism.
Calls to close the facility and release or try its 460 foreign detainees are steadily mounting — they come now from close allies such as Britain and Germany, from the United Nations Committee Against Torture, and from every major human rights group.
The problem is that everybody wants to close Gitmo but nobody wants to accept the prisoners housed there. Even if it were possible to locate them inside the continental United States, (which would then place them behind Constitutional protection) there is the NIMBY factor. (NIMBY=Not In My Back Yard) Read the rest of this entry »
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