Quick Hit: America's Return to Human Rights
President Obama signed the orders to close Gitmo as one of his first acts in office. An excerpt from the New York Times:
Saying that "our ideals give us the strength and moral high ground" to combat terrorism, President Obama signed executive orders Thursday effectively ending the Central Intelligence Agency's secret interrogation program, directing the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp within a year and setting up a sweeping, high-level review of the best way to hold and question terrorist suspects in the future.
About frickin' time we had a president that honored the rule of law, the Geneva Convention, and due process.
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If the Geneva Convention wasn't such a good/important thing, it might get annoying when every student in every class looked at me after every mention of it. :)
Not to put a damper on the mood of positive human rights and all, but where do these people go if the Guantanamo closes?? This story, over at newday covers what some European countries are saying...and overwhelming, no one wants the former detainees. http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-eu-europe-guantanamo-taking-prisoners,0,1716892.story
Unintended consequences of doing the right thing...Sweden is especially unwilling to take any, saying that the U.S. ought to clean up its own messes.