Ben Wittes wrote a post the other day arguing that Obama should "embrace" Guantanamo that I've been thinking about how to respond to, but I doubt I can do better than this response he posted from habeas lawyer Sabin Willett:
Embrace it. Hmmm. The thing I've never understood is, why at least not convert GTMO to a POW camp? A real one? With real, honorable treatment of the enemy, as required by law and the service field manuals? Why the cages, interrogations, etc etc etc? Why arent there gardens, orchestras, newsletters, canteens, jobs — or were the Nazis (who had all those things in camps in Texas and Alabama) less dangerous than Taliban privates? America is Winston Smith. You remember how Orwell's 1984 ends. [S]he loved Guantanamo.
