Mon 13 Jun 2005
I think its time to close down our enemy combatant detention centers in Cuba. They have become a lightning rod of anti-Americanism. Most of the people held there have been there for at least a year. If we haven’t gotten information out of them by now, we aren’t going to get information out of them. We are detaining them to keep them out of circulation.
We should establish a prison in Afghanistan and turn over management to the Karzai government - with the proviso that US troops are responsible for security. The Afghans would be responsible for taking care of the prisoners - US forces are there to make sure they don’t escape. Any time a US official needs access to a prisoner then an Afghani is present.
This puts any responsibility for abuse on the Karzai government. It would provide a much needed influx of money into the country. More importantly it shuts down one more thing the left can use to attack our efforts in the war on terror.

June 13th, 2005 at 10:41 pm
I agree, but for a different reason. The goings-on in Gitmo and in our prisons in Iraq are a black eye to this country. Rather than saying that they give the left something to use to attack the “war on terror”, we should say that they do not represent what this country stands for and should probably have never been opened in the first place.