the people at Gitmo are, much of the time, held without trial and subjected to "enhanced integration techniques" (torture) to attempt to extract information that many of the accused may not even have in the first place. Many of those people are not "war criminals," a fair number of them are innocent civilians, and even if they had been tried and convicted, their treatment would be illegal if it were on US soil for how cruel and unusual it is. Do not pretend that anything happening there has ever been okay.
"A fair number of" who, exactly? The 780 that it held at its maximum capacity? Or the 15 who resided there at the end of Biden's administration?
Everything that you said about Guantanamo Bay is 100% correct. But I don't think it's very relevant.
I am not defending the continued use of Guantanamo Bay under Obama and Biden. But I do think that we should acknowledge that both presidents reduced the number of detainees held there over the course of their presidencies. It's likely that the number would have decreased even further under a Harris presidency.
Before this year, the Guantanamo Bay prison was dying a slow death at the hands of several poison pills meant to kill it. It absolutely sucks this didn't happen in 2009 when Obama promised it would. But on its previous course, the facility was doomed to be emptied.
Under Donald Trump, it is slated to be filled up nearly 40 times as high as it was at its maximum capacity.
Focusing on the Democrats not doing enough to completely close it down instantly, and instead just slowly closing it down... It's beside the point to what is actually happening right now.
I am sick of the blame game that points the fingers to Democrats because they were too slow at fighting injustice, in order to distract from the people who are actually perpetuating and causing the injustices.
The man who wanted Adolf Hitler's generals is creating a concentration camp at a facility infamous for torturing inmates, where media won't be allowed to see the human rights abuses that take place there, and it's going to be used to detain people captured on US soil without a trial.
This is a nightmare scenario that is magnitudes worse than Guantano Bay was even during the Bush era.
