Let's file this one under the "silly campaign promises" category.
Pres BO now faces a Gitmo Mess:
"What do we do with the 50 to 100 -- probably in that ballpark -- who we cannot release and cannot try?" Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently asked Congress."
That's right. What in the world do you do with these people?
Sen LINDSEY GRAHAM and Sen JOHN MCCAIN wrote an interesting column today about GITMO:
"In January, the president announced via executive order that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay will close within a year.
The announcement was easy -- but it left unanswered the hardest questions about detainee policy for the future.
How do we prosecute detainees suspected of committing war crimes now that military commissions have been suspended?
How should we handle those detainees who cannot be tried, but who are too dangerous to release?
Where will we house them?
How should we deal with detainees who, if released, would return to the fight against us?
How do we deal with the prisoners held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan where some detainees captured outside Afghanistan are being held?
There are no easy answers." (How to Handle the Guantanamo Detainees)
That's right: There are no easy answers.
The best answer is GITMO. They can not attack us from GITMO. They are not a threat to any one's community.
And they can stay there until the "war on terror" ends.
GITMO looks better and better everyday that we talk about closing it!
