re: #67 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Plenty of good alternatives, if your priority is abiding by the law rather than running a concentration camp.

Gitmo is NOT a concentration camp in any stretch of the imagination.

It is legal (within the law) and no there are no easy alternatives. If there were Obama would have proposed it.

Diplomacy? You have a dictator who is dropping high explosives and naval gunfire on his people’s heads and you think he can be bargained with? What were we going to offer, not to put his ass on trial for war crimes?

That is kinda my point. The Obama who ran for office would have insisted on it. He made it seem like he could negotiate with the worst dictators. The hope was that he could talk to our enemies….