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Argument: Guantanamo Bay alienates US allies
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- Karen J. Greenberg, director NY Law's Center on Law and Security. "8 Reasons to Close Guantnamo Now". In These Times. February 12, 2007 - "#7 … and alienates our allies
- At a time when international solidarity is needed to confront the potent and lethal enemy of terrorism, Guantánamo has led to widespread distrust of the United States. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for Guantánamo’s closure. And Justice Lawrence Collins, a British high court judge, has said, 'America’s idea of what is torture is not the same as ours and does not appear to coincide with that of most civilized nations.'
- Baltasar Garzon, Spain’s most prominent magistrate for crimes of terrorism, has warned, 'If we continue along these lines, we are on the road to committing crimes against humanity.'
- In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said, 'There is no question … An institution like Guantánamo in its present form cannot and must not exist in the long term.'"