What Obama Couldn't Say About Af-Pak »
Posted By tehranchik 9 months ago in Political NewsWhat about detainees? Currently we're holding some 600 of them at Afghanistan's Bagram air base--aka "Afghanistan's Guantanamo"-- with plans for a major expansion. How long can and will we hold suspected terrorists captured in the region, and what rights will we grant them? It's not clear that Obama's legal team has yet figured this out.
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Well, I'm from and live in the Pacific Northwest. I did live in the middle east during the late 70's and early 80 ...
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gamahuche9 months ago
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Lots of very good questions!
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I hope that most of these have already reached Obama in one form or another.
Unfortunately having the intelligence to understand the questions does not automatically provide solutions to these highly intractable problems.
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