Thomas Friedman Urges a Reading of Foreign Press, Then 'Shut Down' Guantanamo

Hurling a kind of challenge at the U.S. press, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman today urged Americans who support the ongoing operations at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to read what the foreign press has to say about it. Then Amnesty International’s depiction of Guantanamo this week as America’s “gulag” doesn’t seem farfetched at all.
Noting that 100 prisoners have died there, not likely from heart attacks, Friedman--a strong supporter of the war on terror and the Iraq invasion--concluded with this advice about Guantanamo: “Shut it down. Just shut it down... I am convinced that more Americans are dying and will die if we keep the Gitmo prison open than if we shut it down.”