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A National Guardsmember stands watch over a detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. (JTF Guantanamo photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Gino Reyes)
With the departure of U.S. and coalition forces from Afghanistan earlier this year, the United States ended the central front of its longest war—and one of its most costly in terms of lives and money.
However, one relic from that war remains: The indefinite detention of presumed combatants at Guantanamo Bay.
I’ve been to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to see the detention operations twice—once in 2002 with then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a congressional delegation and again in 2013 with Senator John McCain and then-White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough.[…]
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