I am the american shepherd though.
If you keep talking like you're Glenn Beck or something I'm just going to move we ban you. It's a useless blanket statement that "I AM SO-AND-SO". Oh yeah? We Are The World! See, I can do them too, and even make them silly puns on '80s song titles.
On the other hand i can bet you that the american populace isn't going to like the alternative for where the gitmo detainees go.
True. But that's NIMBY. Maybe you do have a coherent point here...
Treating the issue as one of criminality sounds like something here, but sounds like yet again, something the american populace would vote down because they wouldn't be ready for terrorists being devalued to the level of normal criminal.
...false alarm!
First: it doesn't matter what it sounds like. We've presented evidence that it works. If you win,
you win, and nothing the public can think or say or do can erase that.
Second: As I already pointed out and you apparently didn't read, the American populace has long experience with terrorists being devalued to criminals. That's why people want Gitmo closed in the first place and have since it opened.
It would make people think lazy, we don't want to put as much effort into it anymore.
Because we put so little effort into tracking down McVeigh, I'm sure. You know, those months of investigative work and showcasing pretty much everything about the FBI that is good didn't happen.
I see risk of moving gitmo terrorists to american prisons for more home grown terrorists (honestly i think ahmed not getting right the not dropping of the soap a little more likely).
Yes, because regular American Ordinary Decent Criminals are going to react so well to the terrorists and not shank the everloving hell out of them at the first available opportunity.