# Guantanamo Bay Is Despicable and Must Go

By [Continuations](https://continuations.com) · 2013-04-15

security, politics, gitmo

---

I was planning to write more on cyber security but then yesterday I read this [harrowing letter](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?_r=0) from a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo). I don’t take his claims about his lack of involvement at face value. It is irrelevant. He has been held for a shocking 11 years and 3 months without a trial. That goes against everything we as a country should stand for.

I wrote [in 2010](http://continuations.com/post/332366068/google-and-china-wishing-for-more-us-credibility) that “I wish we had the courage to go ahead with a shutdown of Guantanamo, even if that results in releasing people who will want to attack us.” I believe that today more than ever. If we want long term security not just for ourselves but for the world, we have to [stop believing in drones](http://continuations.com/post/44779446815) and start by leading with the values that we want others to embrace.

Gitmo Must Go.

---

*Originally published on [Continuations](https://continuations.com/guantanamo-bay-is-despicable-and-must-go)*