How much is that evildoer in the window?

The New York Times > Washington > Pentagon Seeks to Transfer More Detainees From Base in Cuba

We now find ourselves reviewing “..the future of the naval base at Guantánamo as a detention center, after court decisions and shifts in public opinion have raised legal and political questions about the use of the facility.”

So, what to do with the detainees?

Under the administration’s approach, the State Department is responsible for negotiating agreements in which receiving countries agree “to detain, investigate, and/or prosecute” the prisoners and to treat them humanely.

What leftist wuss made them put that last bit in there? Humanely! These aren’t cute little puppies and kittens we’re talking about. They’re evildoers. They are suspected of either doing evil, or planning to do evil all over the place. Don’t they realize how hard it is to get evilodor out of the carpets and upholstery once evil has been done?

“Our top choice would be to win the war on terrorism and declare an end to it and repatriate everybody,” a senior Defense Department official said in an interview. “The next best solution would be to work with the home governments of the detainees in order to get them to take the necessary steps to mitigate the threat these individuals pose.”

“Mitigate.” Now that’s more like it. So sinister. It leaves plenty to the imagination. Quite a departure from Defense Department Official’s rose-colored scenario though, isn’t it? Seriously, we’ll let you have your evildoers back, but you have to put up a fence, give them a collar, have them declawed, spayed, neutered. The last thing we need is a litter of evildoers that we can’t even give away.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that future transfers into Guantanamo remained a “possibility,” but made clear that the court decisions and the burdens of detaining prisoners at the American facility had made it seem less attractive to administration policymakers than before.

“It’s fair to say that the calculus now is different than it was before, because the legal landscape has changed and those are factors that might be considered,” a senior Defense Department official said.

Calculus? What was the calculus before? That it’s ok to abandon the basic tenets of due process, habeas corpus, and burden of proof? Our ideals and our Bill of Rights are based upon inalienable human rights. We were wrong to deny anybody those rights. We can’t declare non-human status based on skin color or nationality. That’s un-American. (See how I changed-up on you there, Nationalist Dogs?)

No, the legal landscape hasn’t changed. The rulings that have come down have just called the tyrants out on what they are doing.