About that Pentagon study reporting that 14% of detainees released from Guantanamo “returned to terrorism or militant activity.”
Two reactions:
Given that ALL of the people we picked up were supposed to be terrorists, what should we make of the fact that 86% of them didn’t act as terrorists after they were released? Did Guantanamo “rehabilitate” them? Or perhaps that’s evidence that we were mostly picking up people who weren’t terrorists in the first place.
Second, why did the Bush administration release those 14%? In particular, I wonder whether some were released to other countries who then released them. We tend to think of sending bad guys to other undemocratic countries as being a great idea because they can be more cruel. But we forget: we lose control at that point.