Detainee transfers

Josh is a bit worried about recent efforts to hand over "nearly 70%" of Guantanamo detainees to their native governments. I don't blame him.

More specifically, the article says that most Afghan nationals (110 at Gitmo and 350 at Bagram) will be turned over to the "exclusive" control and custody of the new Afghan government. And if you read down further into the article what becomes clear is that this is being done because of mounting international and internal pressure to scale down if not shut down the extra-legal prison system we're running at these various detention facilities around the world.

Face it. We can't have any real confidence that the new Afghan government will even exist in a few years. And we're turning these hardened terrorists over to them? Please.

We don't think there might be some anmesty? Someone might lose the keys and a few might slip away?

I don't like this at all. I frankly think that one of the big reasons why we haven't had any terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11 is because of all of the people that we are holding right now in detention centers. And now we are planning to return most of them to areas that give them a much higher chance of escaping (whether through terrorist-aided jailbreaks or amnesty)? Something isn't sitting right.