The crowd pushing President Obama to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay posthaste, as he so prematurely promised, should acquaint themselves with a stunning recommendation by his own task force:The most fundamental duty of any government is not to provide government-run health care--it's to protect its citizens.
Of the 240 detainees there, 48 should be held indefinitely, without trial, under the laws of war.
Why? Because they are believed to be members of Al Qaeda, the Taliban or another enemy force - but those charges cannot be proven in either civilian or military court.
Why not? Because they were picked up, duh, as part of a war - not during an orderly investigation. They were interrogated for intelligence purposes, not with criminal conviction in mind.
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