Let’s say we close down Guantanamo Bay.
Then we try all of the detainees in American courts. (Yes, I know all of the very legitimate arguments against it, so save your keystrokes please. We’re just playing pretend for a minute.) Some will be found innocent and shipped back to the lands whence they came and--having learned their lesson--will study war no more (yeah, right).
Others—probably most--will be found guilty, however. With no more Guantanamo Bay, they’d have to go to our prisons.
If American prisons are as bad as I hear they are, guys like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (if he's at Gitmo) and Mohammed al Qahtani will be pining for the comparative luxury of Gitmo and its Christina Aguilera "music" and will be heaping curses upon the collective mustaches of US Senate. Perhaps this will cause an especially pernicious vermin to nest in the facial hairs of Senators Patrick Leahy and Richard “US-military-as-Nazis” Durbin.
I wonder whether those who are calling for the shut-down of the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility have thought even this far ahead.
