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Publication Date: September 2007
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): James Jay Carafano; Steven Groves; Janice Smith
Research Area: Law and ethics
Keywords: National security; Groves; guantanamo bay; Afghanistan
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The research presented in The Heritage Foundation's Guantanamo Bay collection clearly indicates that Congress should not interfere with the U.S. military's policy of detaining unlawful alien enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay. The United States is engaged in an ongoing armed conflict against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and therefore has no obligation--legal, moral, or otherwise--to release captured enemy soldiers so that they may return to the battlefield. Short-sighted legislation extending unprecedented rights to foreign terrorists and other enemy combatants undermines U.S. troops deployed in the field in Afghanistan and Iraq. These detainees should not be released until the cessation of hostilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere.