There are few things more un-American than Guantanamo Bay, which isn’t to say that all of the prison’s detainees are innocent victims. But if you have enough evidence to hold them, you have to charge them. Of course, no one wants to be the person to free Gitmo inmates and have one or more of them participate in a terrorist act. That would never be forgotten. But we can’t go on this way. It’s bad all around. 

The opening of an article by Carol Rosenberg in the Miami Herald about the elaborate post-Guantanamo plans drawn up by a quintet of prisoners:

“No, it’s not a kibbutz. But the crude jailhouse plans for a ‘Milk & Honey’ farm business in Yemen are suggestive of one.

Five war-on-terror captives locked up inside Guantánamo prison have designed a self-sufficient agricultural business west of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a. They envision a community of 200 families, 100 farmhouses, 10 cows, 500 chickens, 50 sheep, a honey bee subsidiary and computer system powered by windmills.

The would-be entrepreneurs drew up the 75-page prospectus before the prison hunger strike. But it recently emerged from U.S. military censorship at an opportune time — as the Obama administration searches for ways to safely send some prisoners home to Yemen and close the Pentagon’s costly prison camps in Cuba.

And, while the quirky business model makes no mention of the potent al-Qaida franchise that U.S. officials fear will attract freed Yemeni prisoners, it does illustrate that some of the 155 captives have a vision of life after a dozen years in American detention without charge or trial.”