According to an Associated Press story this morning, former U.S. secretaries of state Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger, James Baker III, Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright, at a round-table discussion sponsored by the University of Georgia, called for closing the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay. The reason seems to be bad public relations. Opponents of the long war at home and abroad have demonized the U.S. effort to keep the “worst of the worst” captured in the war on terror off the battlefield and hold those who have committed war crimes …
