Why America Stopped Sending 'Terrorists' To Gitmo And Started Bombing Them
A recent poll indicates that 54% of Americans believe Gitmo should stay open while 27% percent believe it should be shut down. Meanwhile 83% of Americans approve of the Obama Administration's use of drones against suspected terrorists.
In the words of Bellinger: "This administration has decided they don't want to do detention, because the Bush administration got into trouble with detention, so now they're just going to kill people."
Foust explained that capturing targets had become a "political black hole of what to do with detainees," after the shuttering of black sites left no standard process for arrests and extradition in hot spots such as Yemen and Pakistan.
"That poses a lot of really big challenges to doing this in an up front, legal way," Foust said. "It doesn't mean it's impossible, just that it would take a lot of work to put that into place ... You end up creating this ecosystem where killing is easier, more politically palatable, and more popular than capture."
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