http://www.nypost.com/seven/05232009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/radicals_in_our_prisons_170673.htm?page=0
Muslims have been recruiting people in the U.S. prison system for decades. If we close the Guantanamo detention center, there is talk of putting these terrorists in American prisons. While the chance of them escaping is very low, that is not the real problem. The real problem is that they will recruit more prisoners into radical Islam and create more terrorists.
Prisoners will think of these terrorists as a type of celebrity. They have been in the toughest prison we have. They have withstood "torture." They were fighting against the US in the War on Muslim Terror. They will be sought after by certain members of the prison population. They will recruit others who will get out, who will commit other crimes when they are returned to society.
These terrorists are too dangerous to bring back to America, even if they are locked up. They are not common criminals, they are terrorists. They are unlawful combatants in a war. Just like lawful prisoners of war they need to be locked up for the duration of the conflict. If that means they stay locked up for fifty years, that's okay with me. US prisoners were kept by North Vietnam for over ten years in many cases, and that was a more conventional war. There is no reason to bring these terrorists to the US; that's the view from the Hysterical Right Wing.
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When you invaded Vietnam and then Iraq how did you expect the people to react?
When the French and later the South Vietnamese governments asked us to help them defend against Communists we responded by helping those legitimate and lawful governments.
When Iraq violated the cease fire agreement and numerous UN resolutions the US and coalition of over 35 nations including Japan, Poland, South Korea and others deposed the Saddam Hussain government.
Most of those in Guantanimo are not Iraqis.
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