> I claim the hatred we’ve garnered from Guantanamo has reduced our security.

I reject this notion that somehow we are more hated or less secure than we were when these people were plotting 9/11, specifically because of Guantanamo. And even if it were true, which it isn’t, it would be because the anti-Bush people exaggerated the claims of torture and inflated it into something akin to concentration camps and a war on Islam.

In reality, as prisons go, it is not some horror. But going the other direction now, giving foreign terrorists miranda rights, we are going to be despised as weak and pathetic and seen again as an easy target.