“At that point, the remaining men in Guantánamo can no longer be held without charge, at least not without running afoul of basic constitutional and international law prohibitions.”

Umm….I think “that point” passed a long time ago….there are people that have been in there for as long as it’s taken my child to go from the nursery to middle-school.

The question you should be asking yourself is can America give up on torture, kidnapping, indefinite imprisonment without due process, drone attacks and other assassinations, etc. moving forwards? It doesn’t need any of that blood on its hands, but it has tasted blood and doesn’t want to exercise restraint after that. Who knows if it will ever end?

Most of liberal America (exempting some posters here) seem to be much less aggrieved about it too.

The reports we see now reflect the ugliness of this tragic story’s end, rather than beginning.  Instead of sad stories about an innocent person sold to the American military for a bounty, we’ll hear stories of them dying more than a decade later, still without justice, or even charge. Its bullshit, but whats truly bullshit is the fact that the answer to your question is: Yes, it has always been like this, and we never stopped it.