Quote:
Originally Posted by Guest
So, if we close GITMO does that make the enemy happy? After spending millions on GITMO, have much money do we save when we close it? So, when we get POWs, we bring them back to the states? Put them in the pen with the other American prisoners? Will the military still get to interrogate the prisoners? I am sure that you have all kinds of answers. I am sure they are good ones too.
On 7 January 2011, President Obama signed the 2011 Defense Authorization Bill, which, in part, placed restrictions on the transfer of Guantanamo prisoners to the mainland or to foreign countries, thus impeding the closure of the facility.
|
Unlike the, as Trump said last evening" poorly educated " persons below you, you deserve a response. If we close GITMO it does not make the enemy happy. That is not the goal. It removes GITMO as a recruiting tool in their arsenal. And it says here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw6...w?pref=2&pli=1
that the cost was 397 million in 2014 or about 3 million per detainee per year. Cost in a stateside max security is about 34,000/yr
Obama: 'We're spending millions for each individual' held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba | PolitiFact
These detainees are not POW's. We refuse to classify them as POW's because if we did there are international agreements that we have pledged to honor on their treatment. Instead we call them detainees or combatants. Could detainees be subject to ongoing interrogation if they were in the US and not in Cuba? Why not? Perhaps it would require that they be in a military max security facility. I, however, severely doubt that any interrogation is going to produce useful information when these men have been locked up for over a decade already.
So you seem more reasonable and willing to engage in civil discussion. Tell me why you oppose closing Gitmo? Other than Obama supports the closing.