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Obama Wants to Be Rid of Guantanamo Nightmare
Published in Die Welt (Germany) on 24 February 2016 by Ansgar Graw [link to original]
Translated from German by Rachel Hutcheson. Edited by Eva Langman.
Posted on March 12, 2016.

In 15 years, the detention center has apparently become a normality. The name alone is enough to recruit further terrorists. America’s image has been damaged. A constitutional state should not conduct itself in this way.

Putting them up in a five-star hotel would be more economical. Per inmate, the American taxpayer pays $4.4 million each year. There are 20 guards to each prisoner.

Of course, this is a populist argument relating to Guantánamo. But the election campaign is taking place in the USA and populism is, therefore, at its highest [level].

The Republican candidates for the presidency want to keep the U.S. detention center in Cuba and “fill it up with more people that are looking to kill us.” Donald Trump said that, and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz don’t make things sound much different.