What is quite clear from your article is that 18 have returned (or more likely, turned) to the conflict. That's bad, but unsurprising.
You are taking the most optimistic and unrealistic view, which is in line with all those who feel terrorists or suspected terrorists should be released.The article says
"Since 2007, more than 100 detainees were released, significantly more than in previous years, according to Pentagon officials. According to the statistics, of the 61 former detainees that are believed to have returned to fighting, 18 have been officially confirmed while 43 are suspected, Morrell said".
That is a suspected 61% failure rate. Pretty serious stuff when we are dealing with terrorists intent on murdering as many innocent people as possible. But you appear to believe that releasing them is more important than public safety, which is all part of your high road, I suppose.
Some of those guys were committed insurgents. Some, like those jailed in civilian prisons, go in for minor offences and come out hardened criminals. Some of those who went in were children at a particularly impressionable age. You think they would come out thinking positively about the West? Hell, I think a huge number of people who had or have nothing whatever to do with Afghanistan, Iraq, Islam or the US now have a significantly worse opinion of Western civilisation as a result of the cumulative effects of Extraordinary Rendition, Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, Basra, Pul-e-Charkhi and so on.
These guys were caught in very incriminating circumstances and not removed from their day jobs or their mothers arms. Why terrorists should get the benefits of any doubts and the West having to take all the criticism is a modern mystery, despite the Left having been on the wrong side of history for generations now.
My problem with the whole Gitmo affair is two-fold:
- Despite what you seem to be insinuating, I'm not against the fact that they locked up some dangerous terrorists, but that they failed to prosecute them, and then some of those who clearly were committed to terrorism, they released.
- That they arrested a lot of people, including children, on sketchy evidence and then treated them brutally in Gitmo.
You really know nothing about conditions at Gitmo, do you?
Your customary anti-European blather means nothing.
As you are only being critical of American leaders, as is your custom, why not mention the obvious failure of European leaders? Where do they fit in on the international war on terror?
The Left Wing Eurowhiners will moan constantly about American flaws and American leadership but point out the European hypocrisies and they again go into their childish pout. What losers you are.