Closing Guantanamo isn't all that complicated

[Hippo_Tron]

I've been hearing a lot of right wingers talk about how closing Guantanamo is overly complicated which might cause Obama not to do it and frankly I call bullshit.

Now I'm not a lawyer and I realize that from the legal end there may be some things to work out. I do have confidence that Obama's Attorney General will be able to handle these legal issues with no problems. But the arguments against closing Guantanamo seem to be mostly logistical and not legal. Those I do feel that I am prepared to answer.

To me this seems pretty simple. If a person is being held at Guantanamo because they were captured on the battlefield in Iraq or Afghanistan they should be treated as Prisoners of War. If they were captured in the United States then they either need to be indicted or released. If they are indicted then they should be held in a US Prison while awaiting trial.

The argument that we can't hold them in the United States because sympathetic Muslims will break them out is Islamophobic bullshit. When a right winger asks me "well would you want a terrorist prison in your back yard?" I respond, "I would much rather have that than a regular maximum security prison in my back yard."

Also the argument that although they may have not been terrorists they will be now does not hold any muster. A society that has rule of law cannot imprison people for crimes that they might commit.