Dear sweet Jesus, we’re going backward at warp speed:
The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is now formally set to receive new inmates for an indefinite stay, the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday.
In what amounts to a fulfilled campaign promise for Donald Trump, who had pledged to refill Guantanamo with “some bad dudes,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis delivered a long-expected detentions policy to the White House, a day after the deadline set by Trump’s January executive order paving the way for new Guantanamo detainees.
“This policy provides our warfighters guidance on nominating detainees for transfer to Guantanamo detention should that person present a continuing, significant threat to the security of the United States,” said Navy Cdr. Sarah Higgins, the Pentagon’s detentions spokesperson.
Much remains unclear about the new policy, which neither the Pentagon nor the White House released. The criteria for determining the threshold for a detainee’s “continuing, significant threat” was not defined, nor was who within the chain of command will be empowered to recommend that decision. National Security Council representatives did not immediately respond to questions.
If your war plan is to take no prisoners and to kill everybody then Gitmo would not be necessary.
At the moment the US has in captivity several thousand ISIS fighters. These “bad dudes” are being held in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Those countries have informed the US that they want nothing to do with these people and they want them removed from their countries as soon as possible.
Uhh ohh.
That’s the problem when you declare war on people and then invade their countries. Even with the best and most elaborate planning there are “unknown unknowns.” Where to house living ISIS fighters is a serious problem.
Our military is much too big and far too dangerous to exist in its current form.
We have created the worlds largest and most powerful ‘offensive force’ and completely forgotten that our military’s mission is to defend us.
How did invading Iraq help in our defense?
If anything that war made us far less safe and secure.