I will not sit still and listen to a "point of view" that slanders our military.
We used to have fewer trolls and liberals on FR, also.
Guantanamo is in a sort of legal never-never land with respect both to U.S. law and to such international law to which the U.S. subscribes. Where Michael and I disagree is the legal status of the internees. I am inclined to hold that those taken on a field of battle bearing arms and not in uniform are entitled to no legal protection whatever. We should and are reviewing their status on an ongoing basis and have released those for whom the evidence in hand suggested a reasonable doubt of guilt.
Where we do not disagree is that the existence of the detention facility is a major PR advantage for leftists who hate the United States, especially in Europe, and that it has detracted from our image there, justly or not. I do not feel that public relations (i.e. propaganda) should be allowed to be the overweening consideration in keeping that facility active, however. Until such time as state-supported terrorists have a legal definition and act in accordance with the laws they invoke to protect them, they should not be accorded the protection of those laws. Just my $0.02.
Michael in not a troll but being European and listening to all the drivel spewed in the European press plus being patriotic to his own country at times makes him come across as one.
Of course he will defend Germany, but the only thing he hears about GITMO is the drivel spewed in the European press.