>>>My understanding is that they are highly unlikely to be released in the U.S. Some of the ones where the evidence is compelling might be moved to supermax prisons.
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>>>You seem to have me down as more of a bleeding heart than I am. I realize some of these guys, maybe most of them, really do mean us harm.
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>>Now they surely do. And now they have a good reason for it.
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>There is some truth to that. But it hasn't been entirely self-inflicted. I believe Islamic fundamentalism is a sinister force that would rather destroy the world than not have its way everywhere. Some of them truly want a return to the 7th century, or to oblivion. Put together a large number of uneducated fanatics who aren't afraid to die and you've got something to worry about.

And inflicting heavy-handed injustice only feeds their cause. Specially the way Gitmo was populated, by often one neighbor ratting on another for quite personal reasons - envy, grudge, land disputes, family feuds - which weren't really checked. And for every guy who was put into these dog cages for no good reason, there's a few dozens of relatives (plus, I guess, most of the village) who heard what happened and, more important, how it happened.

That surely boosted the chances of non-fundamentalist Muslims winning over the fundamentalists there.