08 May 2008

Nature v. nurture debate re-opens

The news that one of the many suicide bombing recently carried out in Baghdad was executed by a former resident of the Guantánamo Bay Beach and Leisure Club will undoubtedly raise calls from the right to throw away the key (or worse) for all of the (not yet found) guilty evil doers who are living the life of Reilly on the Cuban beach. In fact a Navy spokesman, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, said that "there is an implied future risk to U.S. and allied interests with every detainee who is released or transferred from Guantanamo". Well that just settles it doesn't it. I guess it really doesn't matter whether Kuwaiti Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi was a terrorist when he arrived in Cuba-but-not-Cuba, as the US government assures us he was, or whether he was only one when he left. We have not choice but to lock him and his like forever or they will follow us home; or in this case to Baghdad.

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