Close Guantanamo? Grass Roots and Political Pressure Says Maybe Not

Organizations like Move America Forward have visited Guantanamo and returned to launch a campaign to keep the facility open. This is just the latest in a rising public outcry against hasty closure of a facility that supporters say will endanger America. “Keep Gitmo open, and keep the terrorists behind bars,” MAF says.

MAF leaders like Melanie Morgan and Cat Moy (co-authors of the excellent book, American Mourning) have recently visited Gitmo on a support-the-troops mission.

As readers of this space have seen, bipartisan political pressure is mounting both from a “not in my backyard” standpoint and as an issue of national security to encourage President Obama to think long and hard about alternatives to relocation of detainees onto US soil.