Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Some Gitmo detainees will come to Europe

The problem still remains on what we are going to do with the Gitmo detainees. I know that rights probably have been violated by sending the detainees to Gitmo in the first place, but right now we do have to ensure that the safety of citizens of the world is maintained at a sufficient level. I can understand why many European countries are wavering on whether or not to take some of the people because who knows how they will react once released. There are obviously reports both ways on the success and failure of the release of detainees and how do we make it so that everyone else released is a success from now on? As Jones writes, when the government makes decisions like these it is clearly speculative as we cannot know what to expect once we release these prisoners. But does that stop us from proceeding? President Obama and Eric Holder want to move forward and since that is the decision they have made we need to work in the best way possible to get detainees in situations where they will not cause any harm or damage to anyone or any place. Getting help from European countries would be nice, but we obviously need to give them some sort of incentive to get them interested in taking on the detainees and that is something we should be negotiating right now.

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