Gitmo

Let me make one thing clear: I have little sympathy for the detainees. If they were to sit in Gitmo for 50 years I wouldn't feel bad for them. I don't think they "deserve" the rights provided by our Constitution, and some of them probably really do not fall under the Geneva Convention rubric.

It's the lack of process which bothers me. Process implicates the captor as much, if not more than, the captive. It speaks to our morals, our capacity for seeing a fair trial given to those we hate the most. I don't think they have a right to it, but I think we should give it to them anyway. We are better than them, and we are better than the alternative which they represent.

I'm willing to cut the administration a lot of slack, but I'd like to see two things in particular in return: more transparency of the process (expected timelines, or like PG suggests, at least a metric) and aggressive forward movement on the tribunal front.

UPDATE: Thank God for Phil Carter. I'm not ready to endorse his conclusions, but at least he shares some insights and actually defines and uses the term metric along the way.