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It turns out a play date will fix everything. For those who missed it, the Pentagon issued a report 
last week on how to “fix” the prison at Guantanamo. Make no mistake, this is tricky stuff. First of all, most folks don’t think there is anything to fix. That is, it is very well documented prisoners at Gitmo are not abused nor are their rights violated. The problem is there are a bunch of folks who don’t believe that. Never mind of course that countless reporters, Congressmen and aid workers have made continual visits to the prison and never reported any serious violations, the myth continues. Of course, when the President of the United States spouts off about Gitmo it tends to keep the story alive. The fact Barack Obama has promised to close the prison adds to the myth that “something” must be happening there that is out of sorts/Dan Hammes, St. Maries Record-Gazette. More here.
Question: Do you support President Obama’s decision to close Gitmo?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Charlie on February 25 at 9:19 p.m.
I wish he had a plan for the detainee’s in place before saying he would close Gitmo. Bas-ackward thinking.
LukeB on February 26 at 7:15 a.m.
“First of all, most folks don’t think there is anything to fix”
Except that people are being held indefinitely without possibility of trial.
Aliasjax on February 26 at 10:00 a.m.
“That is, it is very well documented prisoners at Gitmo are not abused nor are their rights violated.”
Um…I guess if you think that denying someone their liberty and forceably removing them from their home country is not a violation of their rights then…um…er…I guess he’s right. I mean, they’re getting three squares and a prayer rug, right?