The Wrong Track on Terror

By Haviland Smith
The Baltimore Sun
January 25, 2008

America needs to develop a rational policy for dealing with terrorism.

Almost everything we are doing today is counterproductive. Our actions and attitudes create more radical Muslim terrorists and encourage moderate Muslim passivity toward those terrorists and their operations.

Let us accept, for a moment, as true the Bush administration's claim that the techniques and tools that diminish our civil liberties at home and our reputation abroad are worth it because they have stopped terrorist attacks. Even then the argument fails, for such actions represent a tactical response to a strategic threat. They may stop the occasional attack, but they won't address the fundamental issue.
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Closing time - Guantanamo prison serves harm, not good

Cox News Service
January 24, 2008

As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen has a voice that demands attention on issues regarding the nation's military. And President Bush should heed his advice to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a way of restoring influence and moral authority to the American mission abroad.

The installation became a flash point quickly after the invasion of Afghanistan as the United States began shipping suspects deemed to be the most dangerous to the facility for imprisonment and interrogation. At its height, the inmate population exceeded 600.
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Bush to "seriously" look into return of Kuwaitis in Gitmo - Kuwait FM

Kuwait News Agency
January 11, 2008

By Eman Al-Awadhi KUWAIT, Jan 11 (KUNA) -- US President George W. Bush has promised to "seriously" take into consideration Kuwait's request for the return of its four citizens held in Guantanamo prison, said Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah on Friday.

"His Highness the Amir brought up the issue of Kuwaitis detained in Guantanamo ... and President Bush promised to take this request into serious consideration and notify us as soon as possible with measures that will be taken in this regard," he told KUNA following a meeting between the two leaders at Dar Salwa.
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