Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has recently stated that the closing of Guantanamo Bay Prison will take longer than originally expected. Guantanamo Bay, which has been set to be shut down since the first week of office for President Obama , has proven much more complicated to close by the January 2010 deadline than expected. The terrorist prisoners held within Guantanamo Bay are planned to be sent to other maximum security prisoners throughout the country. Officials claim that as long as the maximum security prisoners are set to accomodate the prisoners, then there is nothing about which to worry with the moving of the prisoners.



I've never thought very highly of Guantanamo Bay, I feel it brings a piece of negative attention to America as the way it is seen that they treat prisoners within. Be that they may not do such things as it is believed they do, it still attracts those negative presumptions. The closing of it seems like quite a good idea, and I understand completely why it would be so difficult to do so. Its a very sensitive thing, moving terrorists. But I do think they shouldn't all be detained into the same area, it just seems like cramming a whole bunch of explosives into a barrel. Not a very good idea. Therefore, I do believe the closing of Guantamo Bay is a very good idea.