Shutting Down Guantanamo Makes No Common Sense

by Heather Robinson
Jewish World Review
February 12, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/173/shutting-down-guantanamo-makes-no-common-sense

Excerpt:

 Last week former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration's national security policies, including holding "hard core" terror suspects at the detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Cheney's warning that granting rights to, and possibly releasing, hard-core terror suspects would be a mistake comes on the heels of President Obama's announcement that he plans to shut down Gitmo - a decision a majority of Americans disagree with, for good reason.

Americans are a people of common sense. And shutting down Gitmo doesn't seem to make very much.

Although the President has already made the decision, it remains to be seen what its ramifications will be.

High-minded arguments about civil liberties aside, the evidence suggests that the U.S. has, if anything, erred on the side of too much liberalism in its handling of the detainees at Guantanamo. And that high-mindedness has cost innocent lives.

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