Gitmo is Not a Gulag

Gitmo is not a gulag and the hysterical torture allegations remain unsubstantiated

The heady first 100 days are over and reality has set in; we may not be shuttering Guantanamo after all. Arthur Herman has written the most coherent summary of the Gitmo issue to date. Like Dick Cheney, who cleaned the President's clock on this issue, he presents a cogent defense of the facility.

The whole Gitmo as gulag trope was a socialist myth anyway. The International Red Cross and various human rights organization have almost carte blanche access to the facility as they do to all US military-run prisons. While working at a prison in Southern Iraq I used to run into snooty Euro Red Cross workers on my way to breakfast. They would sneer at me and my buds if we made eye contact with them. They clearly had contempt for all things American and would not hesitate blowing the whistle on us.

Indeed, what we should do is turn this into an International Model Detention Facility, complete with liberal watchdogs and European Criminal Court judges with powdered wigs. We must bring legitimacy to the Global War on Terror (or whatever the O-ministration is calling it nowadays) and this is just the way to do it.

Either Europe can take its stinking, scraggly-bearded rabble back, or it can join us in ushering in a new era of hope and change for the imprisoned at Guantanamo.

Commentary - Arthur Herman