sure, which is why GITMO works perfectly. Use them for what you need and then plant them in the ground.

"harsh? Try getting you head chopped off on camera with a knife."
Are the lowliest criminals on Earth even part of a model for civilized behavior?

I've been to gitmo twice when I served. That said, the weather is too nice for these people. Cuba is perfect for this kind of prison, its close enough to have easy access to them, remote enough from their homelands to all but eliminate threat, and under military justice the bastards don't deserve anything but slow painful interrogation and then a bullet to the skull. They are the enemy, the deserve no quarter, no respect, no kindness. Caught on the battlefield, caught in the act of terror or supporting terror...no need to judge.

harsh? Try getting you head chopped off on camera with a knife.

"If just one U.S. soldier loses their life over these transfers, we will have failed in our duty to the American people,"
I can't believe anyone can say this with a straight face. "If it saves one life..." is the road to tyranny.
It's disgraceful they even set up special prisons outside of the legal system. I am disappointed President Obama didn't shut down the prison at Gitmo and other foreign locations altogether. American needs to show the world how we try and incarcerate the criminals of the world, the people almost everyone wants to see behind bars. Instead we push the boundaries of the law and forgo the moral high ground.

First, they have zero rights because of how they were imprisoned - terrorists, enemies who tried to kill us. Second, had I control enough to determine their fate, they would be dead before their bodies left that island.

I’m sorry, though it’s obvious that you would not want ANY of these men to be allowed to return to the battlefield, you can’t keep people forever without charging them with something! How would you like to face that type of system? Seriously, what would be your end game to deal with these detainees?
Personally, I wish they had been shot on sight, but, that’s not where we are at.

Nope. If you asked idiot it would have been yup. :)