I wasn’t referring to you for insults.
Reasons to close Guantanamo:
1- Too many overseas bases.
2- Torturing suspects in Guantanamo isn’t one bit better than torturing them anywhere else.
3- Cheaper to house them in the US rather than keep an entire base open.
I think they keep them there because it keeps them from lawyering up via rights here on continental soil
Torture...I’m ambivalent
Most torture is done by third party nations under none such qualms
Too many overseas bases...yes...but Guantanamo has a distinct political history from the Cold War which justified it
Eventually Cuba will want us there....I mean look at Vietnam now
We kept Mariel boat lift criminals infinitely without what you or I would call due process for crimes in Cuba far less damaging to the USA than these folks did
Their treatment is pretty soft compared to say
Florence ADX
New Mexico State pen Santa Fe.....
Some urban stockades
Some rural work camps especially in my part of the country
The argument is mostly a leftist talking point proffered by those who disagree with the WOT or feel the terrorists are right and we deserve it
Seems to me
I’ll give you too many foreign bases