A Dangerous Dilettante

How will closing Gitmo advance the security interests of America? How will bringing Muslim fanatics onto the mainland and into the general prison population make our citizenry safer in their homes? Even if they are isolated in a Federal detention facility, normal prison guards are not equipped to face "suicide soldiers" whose highest aspiration may well be martyrdom. The personnel employed at Supermax in Colorado are tough, but they are not MPs, SPs, or Air Force Security police, by in large, and few have recent combat experience as many of the elite Gitmo guards have had in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even National Guard and reserve units used to guard these terrorists have at a minimum basic training, if not advanced infantry training to know how to grapple with and subdue someone who has been trained to kill with their hands in the badlands of Pakistan. Why would Obama jeopardize the safety of children in the "Homeland" as Bush termed it, or even expose civilian corrections officers to unnecessary and unprecedented danger?