President Elect (PE) Obama is working to close Guantanamo Bay once reaching office. I have one big question though, why?
Has PE Obama been briefed on Guantanamo Bay? Has he seen the classified reports, or asked his staff to visit the facility? I doubt it, and highly suggest he does. Is he aware that having the 'suspected' terrorists detained is a right that was never afforded to those they beheaded, bombed or shot? I am pretty sure the Soldiers and Marines would have loved to get a trail before being blasted apart because they were 'infidels' or some other Jihadist enemy.
Why do we want to bring the 'suspected' terrorists here to America? Why do we want to give them the same legal rights that are enjoyed by American citizens? The 'suspected' terrorists are very lucky to be alive in the first place. Throughout history and war people of their status were routinely killed, never given clean, respectable quarters and a trial. We have gone to extreme lengths to make sure these people had their religious books, food that meets their needs and religious restrictions, and time to pray.
We Americans cannot pray in schools, but the 'suspected' terrorists can pray in prison!
PE Obama described Guantanamo as a "sad chapter in American history." How so? Going out of our way to not kill 'suspected' terrorist? Should we have simply just offed them when we had the chance?
Laurence Tribe, a legal adviser to PE Obama and a Harvard law professor, said " We can't put people in a dungeon forever without processing whether they deserve to be there."
I agree that we need to process the people in Guatanamo Bay. However, I caution everyone to remember that these persons are there also for intelligence and security reasons. Each 'suspected' terrorist needs to be examined by PE Obama's new administration, and not a carte-blanche to everyone there and just start releasing people.
PE Obama has a lot of plans and a lot of tasks to accomplish. Lets just hope he doesn't cause more problems trying to "solve" Gitmo.
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