Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Misunderstood

The administration finally released the Pentagon report on released detainees from Gitmo:

The Pentagon says about 5 percent of terror suspects released from the U.S. navy prison at Guantanamo Bay so far have returned to the fight against the U.S. and its allies.

Data released Tuesday suggests that an additional 9 percent of freed Guantanamo detainees are suspected to have rejoined what the Pentagon defines as terrorist activity.


So is it that 14% of terrorists continue terrorism after imprisonment (reflecting a pretty good rate, really, of suppressing terrorist activity) or (as lunatic critics of the facility argue) is Guantanamo a facility that supposedly causes innocent poets to take up terror, yet only 14% are so driven by the constant horror of rice pilaf?