Comments on: Guantánamo: A Real Uyghur Slams Newt Gingrich’s Racist Stupidity http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/05/21/guantanamo-a-real-uyghur-slams-newt-gingrich%e2%80%99s-racist-stupidity/ World news, political analysis, and opinion commentary Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:58:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jackhttp://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/05/21/guantanamo-a-real-uyghur-slams-newt-gingrich%e2%80%99s-racist-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-56641 jack Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:11:08 +0000 http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/?p=1311#comment-56641 I agree With <uch Of What you Say but Gitmo should be open I agree With <uch Of What you Say but Gitmo should be open

]]> By: salam Ahmedhttp://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/05/21/guantanamo-a-real-uyghur-slams-newt-gingrich%e2%80%99s-racist-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-318 salam Ahmed Wed, 27 May 2009 22:24:40 +0000 http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/?p=1311#comment-318 I came to the US, as a refugee some twenty years a go. I was 'resettled, to the US of A after running away from what was then a Communist country (additionally, one of the poorest countries in the world). America for me was and is a blessing.Politically, I like to think of myself as a Republican not because Republican are well coming of me, as a Muslim from Africa Republicans have no appetite for me, but rather because I strongly believe that the Republican party has more to offer in terms of Value and Politics.Unfortunately though this same party started the Gitmo politics. Notwithstanding this fact, my reading of American history and its relationships with the rest of the world tells me of politics informed not by the machismos that calumniated in the gitmo saga but rather of a country deeply informed through self-reflection and correction: Thoreau, Abraham Lincoln! The former an intellectual the latter a war hero with the attributes of the former. Why am I saying all these?Well precisely because thinking along with such personalities would negate hate predicated politics and advance a pragmatic politics that is self-reflective and adjusting. While I do admire Newt's, stance of returning the Ugyhurs to some third country wiling to take them, I find his comments of returning them to China lacking the very things he reflected upon in his new book "Real Change". While it is true that terrorist suspects, whether ‘bought’ or not can’t be allowed to take residence in the US of A, it is equally true that their presence in the US was a direct result of an inane and non reflective policy. These are not refugees, they are not here on a humanitarian mission gone wrong either, so the question of just handing them back to the very country that feeds on slave labor is far more disturbing than the policies that brought them here to begin with. As a land of laws, the courts' decision should be accepted, I would say, with some political changes. A wise measure would call for a 'Real Change" and Real change calls for an intellectual and political probity.Close gitmo, send its guilty residence where they belong to and those that are not guilty? Send them, to use a legal idiom, to a place where, at best, they would be better off than when they were first picked up: and at worst, to a place where they would be as we found them. This is but only fair. It’s politically fair, historically very American. I came to the US, as a refugee some twenty years a go. I was ‘resettled, to the US of A after running away from what was then a Communist country (additionally, one of the poorest countries in the world). America for me was and is a blessing.

Politically, I like to think of myself as a Republican not because Republican are well coming of me, as a Muslim from Africa Republicans have no appetite for me, but rather because I strongly believe that the Republican party has more to offer in terms of Value and Politics.

Unfortunately though this same party started the Gitmo politics. Notwithstanding this fact, my reading of American history and its relationships with the rest of the world tells me of politics informed not by the machismos that calumniated in the gitmo saga but rather of a country deeply informed through self-reflection and correction: Thoreau, Abraham Lincoln! The former an intellectual the latter a war hero with the attributes of the former. Why am I saying all these?

Well precisely because thinking along with such personalities would negate hate predicated politics and advance a pragmatic politics that is self-reflective and adjusting. While I do admire Newt’s, stance of returning the Ugyhurs to some third country wiling to take them, I find his comments of returning them to China lacking the very things he reflected upon in his new book “Real Change”. While it is true that terrorist suspects, whether ‘bought’ or not can’t be allowed to take residence in the US of A, it is equally true that their presence in the US was a direct result of an inane and non reflective policy. These are not refugees, they are not here on a humanitarian mission gone wrong either, so the question of just handing them back to the very country that feeds on slave labor is far more disturbing than the policies that brought them here to begin with. As a land of laws, the courts’ decision should be accepted, I would say, with some political changes. A wise measure would call for a ‘Real Change” and Real change calls for an intellectual and political probity.

Close gitmo, send its guilty residence where they belong to and those that are not guilty? Send them, to use a legal idiom, to a place where, at best, they would be better off than when they were first picked up: and at worst, to a place where they would be as we found them. This is but only fair. It’s politically fair, historically very American.

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