Guantanamo: America’s ongoing colossal error

It thus seems that the U.S. will be stuck with the Guantanamo problem indefinitely. It will continue to be an international embarrassment for the U.S. and will feed the Islamist extremist narrative that the West—and America in particular—hates Islam.

The entrance to Camp One in Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta. Author Phil Gurski argues that the prison was a colossal PR error, and that the U.S. should have put those suspected of engaging in terrorism on trial in the U.S., allowing the weight of a Western judicial system to bear on their cases.The Hill Times photograph courtesy of Kathleen T. Rhem

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

February 27, 2017

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