
Guantanamo prison is wasteful and un-American. Shut it down.
Before the “war on terror,” many Americans knew about Guantanamo Bay only from its depiction in “A Few Good Men.” In the film’s most famous scene, the Marine colonel who commands the U.S. naval base, played by Jack Nicholson, declares during a court-martial: “I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it.”
We have been told that holding prisoners at Guantanamo for more than a decade is a necessary price for freedom.… Seguir leyendo »