OPINION:
The U.S. has long held a wolf by the ears at Gitmo. We can’t keep the prisoners there indefinitely without trial, and yet we can’t let them go. We fear that they will seek revenge upon release or else be used for propaganda purposes by the enemy. No one wants to be the president who releases the guy who reemerges later as a threat.
But the time has come to either convict these men before the world in fair and open trials, or else release them. As it would be the lesser of two evils to monitor a freed prisoner than to keep an innocent man behind bars, countries accepting former detainees should agree to the continued monitoring of the freed men, as well as to certain other conditions of release. It is time to shutter the Guantanamo Bay prison.
ZEPHYR DORSEY
Iowa City, Iowa
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