Donald Trump has signed an executive order to keep the Guantánamo Bay prison camp open, reversing the policy of the Obama administration.
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Trump said he had directed the defence secretary, James Mattis, "to re-examine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay". He added that he expected that "in many cases" captured terrorists would be sent to the camp.
The Trump executive order instructs Mattis, in consultation with the secretary of state and other officials, to deliver a new policy on battlefield detentions, "including policies governing transfer of individuals to US Naval Station Guantánamo Bay" within 90 days.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 01 2018, @11:17AM (8 children)
Maybe - you got citations?
Whatever - if you pick me up somewhere, accuse me of being a terrorist, lock me up somewhere thousands of miles from home, prevent me from communicating with friends and family, torture me routinely for years, beat me up psychologically in between torture sessions - if I'm ever released, I'm going to be looking for revenge. You would have been better off just executing me.
Of course, the US has other methods of creating terrorists as well. Drone strikes on weddings and other festivities, for instance. We really don't seem to understand anything about human nature, do we?
On topic - Trump proves that he's not any smarter than Dubya was. We need to keep creating terrorists, martyrs, and anything else necessary to keep the terrorists going. Hey - why don't we just give weapons to whatever remains of ISIS/DAESH? They are, after all, trying to depose a regime that we don't like very much, right?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday February 01 2018, @12:41PM (3 children)
Here's something [wired.com] I reckon you'll like - I know I did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday February 01 2018, @01:50PM (1 child)
next in the news: isis buys 3d printer from ebay, tries to create bomb but PLA is still stuck to the build plate.
they launch it anyway.
it melts into a purple mess.
(ebay seller gets negative feedback).
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday February 01 2018, @02:14PM
FTFY
The "3d print your weapon/ammo at war-time" is an idiocy - 3d printing is cost effective for prototyping or when the piece to be fab-ed is so complex that any other way of doing it is either impossible (within tolerances) or more expensive than 3d printing.
It simply doesn't work well for mass production with short production cycles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday February 01 2018, @07:30PM
There is a lot more to 3D metal printing than just plugging it in and pushing a button.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 01 2018, @03:46PM (1 child)
And too add insult to injury the guy who falsely told the Americans you were a terrorist got paid for it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @01:33AM
Additionally, if his reason for accusing his neighbor was because he coveted that guy's wife|home|household goods, with the "bad" guy gone, the "witness" now has easy access to those.
The levels of accountability in this "enemy combatant" paradigm are essentially zero.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday February 02 2018, @03:20AM
Actually, not so much right now, because they've been losing territory in Syria for months now, and are also almost completely kicked out of Iraq. Which makes "ISIS" a pretty lousy name for them, since one of their biggest areas of control is actually in the Sinai Peninsula, and most of their other activity is in northern Nigeria.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Friday February 02 2018, @10:11PM
Dumb like a Fox? Each terrorist "identified" means more dollars in defense spending, which means more money is handed out in defense contracts.