I hate what the people in Guantanamo Bay have done, and I probably hate most things about them. As a Jew who strongly identifies with Israel, I QUITE understand the problems of terrorism---readint the newspaper and seeing people I know every time a bomb goes off...calling friends to make sure they're still alive. But more than anything, I love America. I don't always love what we do, but I love America because it's an idea that's bigger than any other that's ever been. It's the first place in the world (and the only place) founded on one simple idea: All men are equal. So I guess what I'm saying is this: I don't like the idea of giving the prisoners at Guantanamo ANYTHING, but I like the idea of not being true to the ideals that we were created under even less. Their guilt will be shown in a trial, for America and the world to see--but it MUST be a trial that allows America to again be a city on a hill---a beacon unto the nations, saying that even those that hurt us the most have 'certain unalienable rights'...
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