Two and a half months after Obama Administration officials indicated that they were preparing to “speed up” plans to let detainees cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay actually return home, officials have a new excuse not to do so.
Fresh off of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s visit to DC, at which he pressed President Obama to release the detainees, suddenly the focus on a huge plot in Yemen has officials saying that any plans to do so are indefinitely “on hold.”
Of course in the two and a half months between then and now there was no indication that officials were actually considering any serious releases of detainees in the first place. Now they just have a new excuse.
It’s particularly noteworthy that Hadi’s visit came after the first drone strikes aimed at the plot were launched but before it went public, giving Hadi a chance to feign “pressing” the US for the detainees’ release shortly before the excuse would come to life.
this is so bad. imagine if some frat boys went out and captured a bunch of people, and just tied them up and put them in a cage in the fraternity basement and kept them there for a decade and force fed them so they couldn't even die and end their miserable existence.
this is what US people are doing, except on a much larger scale. if you extricate yourself from the made up titles and reverence for the made up idea of the "state", it's just a bunch of people torturing other people.
"Leo Strauss, renowned as a “philosopher of the noble lie”, believed that “those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality and that there is only one natural right—‘the right of the superior to rule over the inferior’.”
Many of the most prominent advocates of the Iraq War, such as Paul Wolfowitz, were devotees of Leo Strauss." – James Bovard