According to Christian Science Monitor, our government is still refusing to let the Uighurs we’ve held at Guantanamo into this country.
A lot of the debate seems to be around whether the courts can compel the executive and legislative branches do it, but that’s a sham: The government shouldn’t have to be compelled. We locked them up (and are still keeping them locked up, though in pleasanter conditions than usual at Gitmo), we acknowledge their innocent and we can’t send them home to China (persecution would be their fate)—I can’t imagine why Congress and the White House are balking.
OK, I can imagine it: There’s a lot of people who will freak out at the thought of Evil Islamofascist Terrorists Loose In America, even if the Uighurs are nothing of the kind. And despite the fact people who thought that way have gotten their butts kicked in the last two elections, Washington still seems obsessed with how they feel.
But that’s still no excuse.

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