GTMO and the long war

MSNBC is running another thinly veiled "Rummy was running a Gulag at GTMO" story, courtesy of the AP. The gist--after the US releases some of "the most deadly killers" on earth back to their home countries, 4/5ths are set free within a few days. Here's a sample:

Clive Stafford Smith, a British-American attorney representing several detainees, said the AP's findings indicate that innocent men were jailed and that the term "continued detention" is part of "a politically motivated farce."

"The Bush administration wants to be able to say that these are dangerous terrorists who are going to be confined upon their release ... although there is no evidence against many of them," he said.

It's long past pointless to point out these people were picked up off the battlefield during combat operations in Afghanistan--the one place on earth where liberals believe war is partially justified in certain situations. One of the realities of war are prisoner-of-war camps, but as I said, pointless, since these folks don't believe there is a war.

It might be better to let Newsweek, via MSNBC, offer a rebuttal. According to their sources al-Qaeda's recent quiet might be the calm before another storm:

One eyewitness, a former Guantánamo detainee with close Taliban and Qaeda ties, spoke to NEWSWEEK recently in southern Afghanistan, demanding anonymity because he doesn't want the Americans looking for him. He says he met the 12 recruits in November 2005, at a mud-brick compound near the North Waziristan town of Mir Ali. That was as much as the tight-lipped former detainee would divulge, except to mention that Adam Yahiye Gadahn, the notorious fugitive "American Al Qaeda," was with the brothers, presumably as an interpreter.

(emphasis added). Wonder which percentage this guy fell into?

But the story's premise, a long time-frame, seems to make sense (the story claims AQ is training western-looking operatives for use a decade into the future). This allows the west to become even more dhimmified and complacent than now, aided by an unpopular war and no significant spectacular attacks to galvanize public support.

While busy training operatives for the next big one, the interim years could be filled with peaceful politically correct efforts to set the table through western government bodies with the aid of a generation of disillusioned youngsters bombarded by the likes of Loose Change, Cindy Sheehan and hip hate-war Hollywood types. Stop and consider current birthrates and immigration patterns--what will the world look like in ten years? All this points to a waiting game.

Besides, if the west throws in the towel faster than expected they can always change tact and go back on the offensive.