National Review Online: Let Guantanamo detainees go, then kill them

[marmar]

from thinkprogress:


National Review Online: Let Guantanamo detainees go, then kill them.

Building on the right’s hysteria following the failed Christmas day terror attempt, National Review Online’s Chris May proposes a “bipartisan” solution to dealing with the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay: Kill them. The right wing has a long history of fondness for torture and the use of extra-legal (and ineffective) measures to hold suspected terrorists, but May takes these notions to their logical end with his simple proposal:

Step (1): Return all Gitmo detainees to Yemen.

Step (2): Use Predator missiles to strike the baggage-claim area 20 minutes after they arrive.

Just an idea.

Of course, assassination of this nature is illegal under international law and two Executive Orders, but May ignores the law and the American ideal of treating prisoners humanely in order to make what appears to be a joke. (HT: Media Matters)


http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/02/may-execute-gitmo/

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[madokie]

2. I'm not sure I fully understand but haven't we done enough to these people?

I mean a person only lives once and we've taken such a big chunk of their lives mostly all for lies then let them go and deal with their decisions, knowing full well they have a right to hate us and may want to do us harm for sure now, even if they hadn't to begin with.

I say we listen to the gripes of the people and work on what it is that we're doing to them that makes them not like us to begin with and then correct that so we all can live in peace. Whats so difficult about that. Oh I forgot the problem with this is our greed fueled largely by our attitudes that we are superior and know best, our arrogance will undo us as a country yet. shame on merika

[malaise]

3. Well let the review understand

that the relatives of the dead in these countries share the same feelings.
An eye for an eye is non-stop bloodshed - particularly when the wars, occupations and drone strikes are illegal.