In a wide ranging and very long interview with the Financial Times (likely behind subscription wall – thus the long excerpts below), former President Clinton discusses a number of issues, including that of Gitmo, which he unambiguously asks that the US close off:
Well it either needs to be closed down or cleaned up.
“…If you run a dictatorship, maybe all you want is for somebody to say they are guilty. If you are trying to preserve and expand freedom you want to convict the guilty and exonerate the innocent.”
“Here’s the question you should ask yourself, ‘If we do this thing, whatever it is, will it change the fundamental character of my country?’ If the answer is yes, you’ve already given the terrorists a profound victory, so at all costs we should try to say ‘No. We will not do anything that changes the fundamental character of our country.”
Update [2005-6-20 5:9:38 by Jerome a Paris]: The link is actually freely accessible, so I have deleted the long extracts I had initially copied below the fold.
