What useful purpose would be served by closing it? Closing it suggests that we agree we are "bad guys".
As if closing Gitmo would prevent abuse of detainees...real or imagined. Couldn't the same thing happened at FT. Hamilton in Brooklyn or Ft. Hood in Texas? By closing Gitmo, another dear friend of ours...the bearded one....would feel that he has attained a victory. We cannot give him that legitimacy. I admit to not being a big supporter of the boycott of Cuba or of restricting travel of Americans citizens there either. But in regards to a specifically military operation (closing of a base)...it cannot be allowed to happen.
Castro is very upset with his next door neighbor huh?
Would all you Vets out there please remind the world what we did during WWII, Korea and Viet Nam when we captured enemy combatants? I was born in 1943, but I cannot recall in my life nor in any history I have read learning that the U.S. had brought POWs onto our shores from other venues in order to give them the rights and privileges of Americans. Isn't that why they fight with our enemies - they don't want to live our way?
BIDEN AND HIS BUNCH ARE ALL IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!
These dim witted dem senators want to close Gitmo? Ok! But let's build a new prison really really close to where these senators are living. Let these senators and their families keep an eye out. You know, just in case some of the prisoners where to escape.
Here is what I see as the BOTTOM LINE.
1.) Since we cannot kill people on the battlefield once they have surrendered, we need a facility to keep detainees such as we currently have.
2.) Closing the facility means we need to open another one somewhere else.
3.) Guantanamo Bay is the perfect location. There can be no demonstrators outside the gates of the prison.
4.) The prison is run by United States Marines. As a former Navy brat who used to see them run the prisoners down the street each day, and as a Navy man who has seen them at work in the brig aboard a carrier(ahem, not intimately,so to speak)I can attest there are no better, more disciplined guards on earth. Misbehavior and prisoner abuse are usually the result of poor disicpline.
You know, they used to joke back before the Civil War that South Carolina was too small to be a nation, and too large for an insane asylum.
I'd say judging by their choice of Senators, Delaware is too small to be a state, but just the right size for an insane asylum --- or detention facility for insane Islamonazis.