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If and when the new President actually closes Gitmo, he is going to have to figure out what you do with suspected terrorists.
The irony is that some of these guys will probably get sent to a country where they will be treated far worse than they are treated at Gitmo. In fact, wait until the US starts trying to move these guys. Almost certainly, some of them are going to find ACLU lawyers to represent them and keep them from leaving (or at least, keep them from getting sent to a place where a prison is really a prison).
One of the main reasons I am a conservative is because the consequences of liberal empathy are almost always disastrous for the victims of that empathy.
So, for example, many of the homeless are on the streets because liberals thought it wrong to keep the mentally ill in live-in psychiatric facilities.
So the people who have been welfare-dependent for generations watch their families disinegrate and their young men murder other young men. Again, victims of liberal empathy.
Just so, the inmates at Gitmo are going to suffer when Gitmo closes and they are no longer under the care of the US government but someone else who will not treat them well.
