Guantanamo Bay Should Be Closed Essay

On September 11, 2001, the United States and the view on terrorism has changed forever. These were the devastating attacks that sparked the War on Terror and the creation of Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo Bay is a detention camp located in Cuba that hold suspected terrorists and is used to extract critical information. There have been proposed plans to close or replace Guantanamo Bay due to moral and cost-wise reasons. However, it should remain open because the detainees are too dangerous to move to another prison, crucial information is extracted, and the U.S. Constitution and the Geneva Convention are not violated. The detainees in Guantanamo Bay are not the average criminal in prison; they are terrorists whose goal is to strike fear into the hearts of their targets. Moving them to any other prison would cause various problems. For example, Dick Cheney, former U.S. Vice President, says, “They’re terrorists. They’re bomb-makers. They’re facilitators of terror.. They’re members of al Qaeda and the Taliban . . .” (“Should the prison at Guantanamo Bay be closed?”). The detainees are not a simple soldier who is a prison of war, they are more dangerous than that. They are much more capable of doing worse attacks, like …show more content…
Constitution or the rules stated in the Geneva Convention. The detainees have and will try anything in order to resist and escape, for example, kill guards. Also, details about past attacks like those on September 11 and future attacks can be revealed from detainees like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Since the camp is outside the U.S. and the detainees are not categorized as POW’s, everything happening in Guantanamo Bay is completely legal. For the sake of the United State’s security and the safety of its people, Guantanamo Bay should remain