BRUSSELS - European governments have failed to come up with alternatives for dealing with terrorist suspects held in the United States prison camp Guantanamo, a top US legal adviser said Thursday. ‘Despite several years of calls for ... immediate closure of Guantanamo, ... I have never heard a European government either offer to help or to suggest how practically speaking Gantanamo should be closed,’ John Bellinger, top legal adviser at the US State Department, told reporters at a visit in Brussels.| Of course not. That would require someone with a spine, and you don't find many of those in EU governments. |
He also said that the US was taking steps aimed at closing down Guantanamo by prosecuting terror suspects and by trying to return others back to their home countries. But for the final closure of the camp, ‘the premise to that is that we could snap our fingers and it could be closed down tomorrow and everyone would go back to their countries,’ Bellinger said.
However, there were countries ‘willing to take their nationals back, but unwilling to give us human rights assurances,’ he said, adding that the US was currently negotiating rights guarantees for the resettlement of 80 Guantanamo detainees.
| There's the solution, of course: the EU countries could take the detainees and come up with a better camp for them. Or they could apply some pressure to countries who would take these mooks back to ensure some modium of human rights, Euro style. That just doesn't seem to be something the Euros want to do. |