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How Guantanamo Bay's Existence Helps Al-Qaeda Recruit More Terrorists
- twoodfin 14y agoThis is really pushing the limits of hn relevance. There are likely many good reasons to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, but that it's useful for militant groups' propaganda must be way down the list. Surely the second it's closed, the emphasis of the recruiting pitch would simply shift to something else. Drone strikes, for example.
- bediger4000 14y agoCertainly recruiting pitches shift, but if they shift into irrelevance or untruth, they become ineffective. How effective is a pitch based on the obvious injustices and hypocricy of the Guantanamo Bay facility? How effective is a pitch based on drones? How effective is a pitch based on "cultural imperialism" or whatever the next step down from drones? It's pretty obvious that Camp X-Ray or whatever its called now is a very bad thing indeed: only a few cranks and people with ulterior motives dispute that. It's pretty obvious that drone warfare is problematic, and probably another hugely hypocritical and prone-to-abuse system. So, what happens after we get rid of Guantanamo and drone warfare? Good things or bad things?