Kevin Drum starts a post on Guantanamo with this head-shaker:
If we shut down Guantanamo, what do we do with all the prisoners? This is a genuinely difficult question, and it's one that's kept me from being too full-throated a critic of the military prison there.
I'll readily acknowledge that there are a lot of thorny problems out in the world that defy ready solutions. However, the prison at Guantanamo is not one of them. We have locked up innocent people there for years on end with no chance of trial. Even if they haven't been "tortured" by whatever definition suits the Bush administration, they have certainly been treated like shit. This is wrong. There are times when the details don't matter anymore, and this is one of them. Just because you may not know what to do to set things right doesn't mean you shouldn't mount a full-scale attack on what's wrong.
And really-- what's so hard about this? If we have evidence that a prisoner there has done something criminal, then prosecute him in a proper US court. If not, turn him loose. If no other country will take the guy, then we should give him a home in the U.S. At this point we owe them that much.
Posted by Jason at October 17, 2006 09:45 PM