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By: Belmont Club » Reasonably sober

Belmont Club » Reasonably sober — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:57:00 +0000

[...] liberals are even now beginning to realize that closing Guantanamo Bay may mean more, not less torture and less, not more intelligence.

By: 2@WwSsXx~`[tab] « The View from Alexandria

2@WwSsXx~`[tab] « The View from Alexandria — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:35:18 +0000

[...] community” on the left.

By: joe buzz

joe buzz — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:52:21 +0000

RW, the key word in that phrase is “known”.

By: Gitmo Will Close « Columbia Gorge Dispatch

Gitmo Will Close « Columbia Gorge Dispatch — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:27:09 +0000

[...] absence of this framework, the Belmont Club shows some of the potential problems. Again, hopefully our new President has plans in place to deal [...]

By: NahnCee

NahnCee — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:44:16 +0000

There was a story in ArabNews a year or so ago that Americans were looking at the Saudi rehab program, thinking about trying it on Gitmo inhabitants. That surprised me, since I had been told by a friend that the program consisted of Saudi authorities telling their paroled jihadists to just cool their jets for a while until the time was better for them to start going after infidels again. And for Allah’s sake, quit trying to blow up Riyadh!

By: Roderick Reilly

Roderick Reilly — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:03:28 +0000

Since Obama rehired so many Clintonistas, there should be some interesting Oval Office conversations about fighting terror post-Gitmo.

By: Anton

Anton — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:24:18 +0000

@19. starling: Neat peice, I agree, one wife and a daily grind are sure to replace the thrills and excitement of the terror racket.

An 8×8 cell is the best way to prevent recidivism. He leaves feet-first the day he needs an undertaker. Not that they deserve even that.

By: RWE

RWE — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:13:41 +0000

I heard on the radio that of the 300 people that have been released from Gitmo, 60 are known to have gone back to “doin’ what comes natcherly” for terrorists.

Anybody else see any figures on that?

By: barry 0351

barry 0351 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:37:33 +0000

(what is occupation)
Sure thang Bubba then we can ask the Japanese how they did it with their “HELL SHIPS” full of Allied POW’s.
“What ya never heard about world war two’s hell ships?”
Look it up then decide if even though these are sub human do they deserve to live in such conditions.”
HINT: some American and British POW’s killed and drank the blood of the dying and others sank down in sickness to drown in vomit and feces.
The fortunate ones were killed by allied submarines and attack aircraft which put them out of their misery.
“HELL SHIPS”

By: Staring In Disbelief

Staring In Disbelief — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:37:18 +0000

Al Queada prisoner recidivism? As predictable as the sunrise. In a democracy, it is the responsibility of the opposition party to keep the party in power honest by making them pay a political price for these kind of blunders, which will be magnified a hundredfold when Gitmo is closed and dozens more are released. Clearly, the Republicans are in tatters right now, but how hard would it be to get on the record that they oppose closing Gitmo? Then, as the inevitable recidivism makes the headlines (perhaps in a spectacularly tragic way), there can be an incremental political cost to the stupefyingly moronic act of closing Gitmo.

Messy, latecoming, with no tragedy-prevention value, but the best we can hope for given the current correlation of forces.