Obama has made a big deal out of closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Like all his plans, it's long on rhetoric and short on specifics. It sounds real good, but when you analyze it, the details aren't so appealing.
Thankfully, the Texas Republican delegation to Congress is vocally protesting the relocation of these terrorists to our state. In a letter to Obama, they pointed out what any rational person would not require being told -- that "any such detention facility in the continental United States would instantly become a target for terrorists." The Texas Democrats pooh-pooh the idea of these prisoners of war being relocated to U.S. soil -- "I want the detainees to be taken to the most secure facilities that can be found. I doubt that would be in Texas," said Representative Chet Edwards of Texas. Has Mr. Edwards forgotten that in a 2007 hearing, Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio was posited as a site for detainees? Has he not heard that immigration facilities in the El Paso area are being considered? And just where does Mr. Edwards think a more secure facility than Gitmo will be found? So far as I know, there haven't been any escapes from there, so it sounds like it's pretty secure to me.
At any rate, I echo the sentiments of Representative Sam Johnson of Plano: "Don't send terrorists to Texas. We don't want them."
"Republicans: Keep detainees out of Texas." The Dallas Morning News; February 12, 2009; p. 8A.
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