Releasing Gitmo Prisoners

When the right in this country cries out against releasing Guantanamo prisoners as per Obama's executive order to close it, I literally marvel at their hypocrisy. They're worried about the security threat it may cause, that it somehow means we're vulnerable to more terrorist attacks now.

In the same breath, though, they ignore the enormous number of terrorists abroad that have been created (or radicalized) by Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, the occupation of Iraq, U.S. military bases in Muslim holy lands, unconditional support of Israel over the Palestinians, or a host of any other terrorist-breeding policies. There are only a couple hundred Gitmo prisoners, and we won't be releasing even a majority of them, I think. So the potential number of terrorists we release is dwarfed by the potential amount of terrorists and terrorist sympathizers we have created and antagonized through aggressive foreign policies. To quote Tyler Cowen:

"When the number goes up by one hundred, no one much notices. If the number goes up by one hundred because we release some previously identified terrorists, there is or will be a public outcry. But it's the same consequence."

The facts are you're not allowed to detain human beings indefinitely without even telling them why. It's against the law. It's immoral. It's tyranny. This move by Obama is much more likely to improve America's image in the Muslim world than to subject us to another attack.