Obama orders Gitmo closed within one year

On Thursday, President Obama re-inspected the law concerning how terrorists and terrorist suspects. He signed an order to close down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within a year.

He signed an executive order banning "enhanced interrogation techniques" by the Bush administration. These techniques included waterboarding, a method of torture by pouring excessive water on the prisoner's face repeatedly. It also required the CIA to stop any secret prisons or interrogations it may be operating.

Obama said the closure of Guantanamo will be "consistent with national security and foreign interests of the United States" and said he wants to send a message to the world that the United States will continue to pursue terrorists but will also operate from the high ground. He says that the United States will watch terrorism closely and effectively in a way that goes alongside our values and ideals.

However, Republic lawmakers are saying that a problem exists, saying that they should not bring the 250 prisoners inside the United States' borders or send them back to the battlefield. Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham both said that they support President Obama's order, but said that there will be some difficulties. Many prisoners who were released did not have any place to go to because not a single foreign country were willing to accept them.

On the other hand, human rights groups were happy to hear this news. Even though they admit that the prisoners will cause some trouble, they are glad that Obama "understands that indefinite detention without trial must end once and for all.

I do not think that President Obama should have signed the order to close down Guantanamo Bay. Where wil the 250 prisoners go? Some of them will be released, and not a single country wants to accep one of them. President Obama should have personally gone to the prison camp and inspected the facility himself. Then, he will get a better idea of how things work there, and it will also show to the media and to the world that he really cares for human rights by going to a place filled with people who are suspected of wanting to destory America. He should have just fired the employees and guards and banned any kind of inhuman torturing interrogation techniques.