Guantanamo, not our problem

It is not a hidden fact that there has been some questionable behavior at Guantanamo Bay Prison. Many suspected terrorists have been held there, some being held with due process, some without. Towards the end of the Bush administration a lot of talk surfaced about closing down the facility, and with the campaign of President Obama hope towards the issue increased.

Obama promised that he would close the detainee center down very quickly, but as the months have gone by the promise has yet to be fulfilled. However, very recently a huge step forward was made.

Congress just voted to close down the facility but conditions apply. Detainees who are found to be guilty are not allowed to be imprisoned in the United States, and even those who are found innocent are not permitted to live here.

For better or worse, the U.S. has always been quick to impose our advice on anyone deemed in need of it. So after September 11 we were all very excited to go out and catch those terrorists. But what to do when we have them?

Aside from the allegations of torture, we haven't done much with them besides house them during the passing years. And when calls of misconduct were made, pressure was placed to shut it down.

So now that President Obama more potential to close it down it leaves us with the same problem we had almost ten years ago.

220 detainees, some innocent, some guilty are going to be stuck in a state of geographical limbo especially if no other countries want them. Included in the group of detainees is a group of Chinese ethnic minorities, who seemingly pose no threat. But I suppose these rejects of the world can always go to Switzerland because we all know they don't discriminate.

We were so adamant about catching the terrorists but now that pressure is on high to close Guantanamo we seem to not want anything to do with them. It's as if we're saying "we don't want them as our problem". This is no way a claim that we treat them in abundant amounts of respect, but rather saying that the U.S. take accountability for our actions, including the ones we have made in the past.

The decisions this country made back at the start of the War on Terror are proving to be a handful. At the time we had our hands dipped into affairs spanning the globe, but now we claim our hands our full.