Club Gitmo

[krystal]

The major idea behind bringing some of the detainees into prisons in America is the fact that we are sending some to other countries. We can't expect other countries to take these people and not man-up and take some ourselves. How would we feel if another country wanted to send some of its prisoners to us? We'd be pissed and want to tell them to deal with their crap themselves.

I understand the arguments for closing Gitmo, because it does hurt our cred with the international community. It tells them that we condone the use of torture techniques to get information, which puts us on par (in other countries' eyes) with less developed, more barbaric countries.

And, just to put this point out there, the only reason I am against "advanced interrogation techniques" is because I took history classes in both high school and college, where we talked about the Spanish Inquisition, where people would admit guilt just to get the tormentor to stop, or to be put out of their misery. NOT that I'm saying that the techniques we have used is the same as the heinous torture that was used then, but they both use the same ideas hoping for the same outcomes, which is admission of guilt and more suspects.