Time to close Gitmo again

Throwing issues against the wall to see what sticks, the President has begun a new discussion about closing the infamous island prison. Of course, there’s no alternative offered, just the mindless bleating about closing the secure facility. From the New York Times;

“It’s not sustainable,” Mr. Obama said at a White House news conference. “The notion that we’re going to keep 100 individuals in no man’s land in perpetuity,” he added, makes no sense. “All of us should reflect on why exactly are we doing this? Why are we doing this?”

Um, because when those 100 people are out and about, they do their best to kill Americans. They’re all there for a reason. Of course, if you want to execute them, I’m down with that, Mr. President. Even the Taliban’s chief spokesman, Hamid Karzai wants to close Guantanamo, according to Stars & Stripes;

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pressed for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama mulls a renewed push before a reluctant U.S. Congress.

Karzai says he has “from the very beginning been a very strong supporter” of closing down the prison at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, a goal that has eluded Obama since he took office.

The White House promises that if we let the Gitmo alum loose, they won’t send them to Yemen, says McClatchy;

Yemeni officials have called on the administration to return the Yemenis being held at Guantanamo to their homeland. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and had initially supported the block on Yemen, last week urged the administration to revisit the decision and determine whether Yemen’s new government, “with appropriate assistance, would be able to securely hold detainees in Sanaa,” the country’s capital.

And CNN gazes at their navel in regards to force feeding those Gitmo undergrads who are currently starving themselves in protest;

“A patient has a right to say no to all medical treatments. We’ve established that again and again and again in the U.S. Think about Terry Schiavo,” [bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the NYU Medical Center] told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.

“These patients are prisoners, but they don’t want it,” Caplan said. “So the balance is, I think, don’t treat them when they say ‘no’ and don’t disrespect their right to refuse.”

My ethics guide is this; whatever the Guantanamo detainees want, do the opposite. Whatever Hamid Karzai wants, do the opposite. Release all of the Guantanamo grads to Yemen, prefitted with explosive articles of clothing.

Category: Terror War