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"We talked recently about the Japanese Interment Camps during WWII. The American government has since admitted this was a foolish blunder. In today's world Guantanamo Bay is much like the interment camps of WWII. President Barack Obama recently signed an order to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo. However, what this video talks about is the detention center in Bagram Air Base, which in some ways is worse than Guantanamo. With Guantanamo closing the detention center at Bagram will be expanding. It seems these detention centers are highly valuable for American security. This sequence of events should cause all of us to think.
- Has America changed its policy at all since the internment camps of WWII?
- Is American security worth trading the rights of a few possible terrorists?
In my opinion I think these detention centers are critical for American security and therefore justified. But they must also have judicial review and surveillance to assure the prisoners are not held indefinitely or tortured in any way. But what bothers me the most about this situation is the politics of it. President Obama is clearly aware of our detention centers including this specific center at Bagram. Still Guantanamo has been such as 'black eye' in the Bush administration that I believe President Obama's decision to close it down was a political move aimed at gaining approval. In some ways it is symbolic of the "change" he promised so many. But is this change of policy or just a change of appearance?"
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