At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
Guantanamo Bay is a facility that I think should be utilized by the United States for detainees, say, out of Syria.
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.
I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
The military tribunals currently underway at Guantanamo Bay create a clear legal process, as affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, for adjudicating the cases of these terrorists, when possible. Those efforts would be severely undercut by moving the detainees to the United States.
Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.
If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.
I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports.