Catching my personal site up with my work at the Xenia Institute, this is my most recent post at xeniainstitute.org. Here I take a tangent from the debate on closing Guantánamo Bay to raise questions about our national priorities and ethical choices.
News that the first Guantánamo detainee has arrived in the U.S. will undoubtedly restart a debate that has been simmering on the back burner for a few weeks now. The arrival of Ahmed Ghailani to stand trial in Manhattan for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya marks the first test of public resolve to keep terror suspects out of the United States. That resolve is apparent in polling data concerning national opinions on the proposal to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay.
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