Yeah.  I mean the rapid destruction of our currency is going to be our undoing, not terrorism or whatever the "war or terror" is supposed to be.

Wow thats insane. maybe they should cut funding?

If i was running America i would cut the military budget down to $100 billion but i would cut it gradually over the years. I would close most or all foreign US military bases, cut the nuclear arsenal by half (which is still 4,000 odd nukes) at least, i would stop use of drones out there completely. Just generally take every step to stop America from being world police, the way it was in world politics up until 1914. Powerful but not interfering. For some reason, America still spends on military like it's the cold war still. But, with such a high ownership of guns, why does America need an army? 

All that money saved could benefit America's in many ways. It would modernise America's public education system, help find a healthcare solution for all, help pay to fix and improve the aging infrastructure and help reduce the obscenely large debt. Even cutting the budget by half, would help.  

They get $2.3 million spent on them per person per year, no ordinary person has that much spent on them. Even if that money is spent on torturing them. But to me Guantanamo just shows how spineless Bush was. He knew he wouldn't get away with it in America, so he forces a country like Cuba against it's will to house it. 

Also, i don't see how all that spending is worth it just to keep 160 terrorists locked up. It has made no difference to these terrorist organisations anyway, they can always recruit more. And i know they are military but why do they deserve all that? Healthcare and food is a given, but everything else shouldn't be free. They get paid, don't they? 

I think for the small amount of people involved, it's just not worth it to be honest. All that money could be helpful somewhere else, that could be enough to give universal health insurance to the public, regardless of whether they are employed or not. 

I have a simple solution: throw everyone against whom there is enough evidence to a regular prison, let everyone else out. That's what you do it what everyone else, and that's what's typically called 'justice' in the West: innocent until proven otherwise.

well republicans like funding idiotic stuff. if it helps the people it has to go.  

Do you have a source for that? A quick google search pointed me to an Amnesty International report, which mentioned a number of 260.000 people in such camps, but that is just about 1/10th the number of prisoners in the USA. The report also mentions political prisoners, saying that the absence of data makes it hard to say how many there are, but they estimate a few thousand.

The information I could find did not point to China actually having more prisoners than the USA (despite China having five times as many citizens and a badass human rights image).

Let's face it, todays understanding of military defense has nothing to do with the classical understanding of defending the actual territory of the country, against offensive military troops trying to cross the borders and take over control of the territory. Todays "defense" is more about protecting our own economic well-being now and in the near future, access and control of critical natural resources in other countries etc. As a comedian over here likes to say: "For us christians it's hard to understand why god buried our precious oil right under the crazy muslims feet." ;)

This. I can't even imagine how much will it cost USA to compensate those that will eventually be found innocent, not to mention the reputation backlash for the whole nation.

Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just coopearate? 

Also, our American and European governments need to understand, we are in decline. There's nothing to stop our decline, especially with the ever lasting recession being a massive advantage to Asia. The sooner, we get over our own arrogance, we might see peace hopefully. It's not really worth fighting over resources that will run out when we have the technology around for solutions which are ignorantly ignored currently.