* Our invasion and occupation of Iraq have produced and trained at least one hundred enemy combatants willing to sacrifice themselves in the killing of Americans for every enemy combatant we have killed or captured in Afghanistan and Iraq. The neocon doctrine of improving world order and our safety by projecting US military power abroad predictably had negative efficiency.
* Considering the frequency and brutality of inter-Muslim killings and the ease with which people can depart utterly from civilized ways in a hateful environment, there is little doubt that Americans and allies here and in various parts of the world will be killed by terrorists we have cultivated.
* The prisoners in Guantanamo are no longer well connected to movements in their home countries, so their possible intelligence value is minuscule and their threat in aggregate is small compared to that of the many thousands of enemy combatants we have cultivated. Therefore, our danger would not increase measurably were we to repatriate those prisoners immediately, except those we are prepared to indite and prosecute immediately. In most cases, it would be the just thing to do. It is impossible to imprison even a modest fraction of those now willing to do us harm. Better to make friends wherever possible - friends to help contain, discover and control those bent on violence.
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