Full steam ahead for Guantanamo Dick

Asked about closing the controversial U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said on CNN's Larry King Live: I think you need to have someplace to hold those individuals who have been captured during the global war on terror. I'm thinking of people like Khalid Sheik Mohammed. This is a man we ...

Asked about closing the controversial U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said on CNN's Larry King Live:

Asked about closing the controversial U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said on CNN's Larry King Live:

I think you need to have someplace to hold those individuals who have been captured during the global war on terror. I'm thinking of people like Khalid Sheik Mohammed. This is a man we captured in Pakistan. He's the mastermind of 9/11 […] There are hundreds of people like that, and if you closed Guantanamo, you'd have to find someplace else to put these folks."

How about … the U.S. prison system?

The truth is, treating guys like KSM as soldiers in a war only gives the terrorists what they want—coequal status with the world's greatest military power. Better, as Tom Malinowski argues convincingly here, to diminish them as the criminals and losers they really are.

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