Sen Mel Martinez (R-Fla) is joining  fellow Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Joseph Biden  (D-Del)  in efforts to initiate a review the United States' enemy-combatant policy and ultimately close the Guantanamo prison. 
Martinez boldly asserted:  ``It's not very American, by the way, to be holding people indefinitely.
Well, by the way, no, it's egregiously  un-American to hold people indefinitely. 
But then his courage failed and Martinez waffled wildly:  "Now they're like POWs, and the conflict is still ongoing, and typically you wouldn't release POWs until the end of the conflict."
So what exactly is Martinez committing himself to here?
How Republicans Messed Up on Project 2025 (Paul Krugman)
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Their hate, their greed, their short-sightedness – and the law of 
unintended consequences – will be their undoing. (My opinion.  The rest of 
this is Paul...
 
 
 
 
 
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