Bringing Detainees to Illinios

It looks as though about 100 detainees from Guantanamo Bay are headed to an underutilized prison in Illinois. A formal announcement is expected later today.

This is a mistake. There is no reason to bring the detainees onto our mainland. It would create a threat to the safety of the local population: all that a committed terrorist group would need to do is stage a break and get some of their comrades out into the countryside to cause havoc. They are better off left isolated on the island prison.

Why must Guantanamo close anyway, other than the fact the President Obama signed an ill advised order to do it? These people in question do not merit American style constitutional rights: they are not Americans. They are terrorists and suspected terrorists; you do not protect your country in the same way that you protect your own streets and citizens. Beyond the consideration of basic human rights, the detainees do not deserve further thought as they are dealt with.

The bottom line is this: you cannot run the military in the same way you run many other aspects of policy. You cannot run the military as though it were a platform for political gain, or for the sake of pandering to world support for America. Yet the President elected to do just that, to show he was in favor of that vaunted 'change' which liberals spout about so much.

Funny that their idea of change almost always means 'do what we want'. Yet it is sad that that attitude puts the average American in harm's way.