Article Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/washington/28detain.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
It appears that we are sorting through the many captive enemy combatants we have collected and maintained at great taxpayer expense, and repatriating them back to their homelands.
While it is good to finally see some of these long time prisoners set free - and released from being a burden on our soldiers and our taxpayers… it makes me ponder the entire necessity of having had to warehouse these humans for so long, and if indeed it has done much good.
Will their captivity have truly made a difference? Will they yet still attack us, and yet all the more because of their captivity? Or can we truly expect that they will “peaceably” go home, and not be beholden to the Wahabbist preachings emanating from their local mosques every Friday?
Only time will tell.
And I pray that we will never again repeat either the circumstances of an unconstitutional war or the summary, multi-year detention and/or torture of people without hope of trial… or ever realize the more chilling possibility that someday, thousands or hundreds of thousands of American citizens be so inequitably carried off into captivity or tortured for being of the wrong political beliefs.
