Guantanamo II

The Bush administration loved Guantanamo so much, they made a sequel, but as with most sequels, it has all the memorable elements, but is far, far worse.

While an international debate rages over the future of the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the military has quietly expanded another, less-visible prison in Afghanistan, where it now holds some 500 terror suspects in more primitive conditions, indefinitely and without charges.....

From the accounts of former detainees, military officials and soldiers who served there, a picture emerges of a place that is in many ways rougher and more bleak than its counterpart in Cuba. Men are held by the dozen in large wire cages, the detainees and military sources said, sleeping on the floor on foam mats and, until about a year ago, often using plastic buckets for latrines. Before recent renovations, they rarely saw daylight except for brief visits to a small exercise yard.

And this article also poses the question, "without Gunatanamo, and now Bagram, where would we keep terrorist suspects?"

That's such a loaded question in that it takes so much of the administration's talking points for granted. The answer is simple.

You bring them here. You house them in prisons. You take them to court. You provide evidence. And you convict them. If there is not sufficient evidence, then you let them go. That is the law. Supposedly, that's what we're fighting for.