[KhaamaPress] I, the ISN 3148, am sitting in Guantánamo, as I hear about the Afghan government’s promise to release a hundred more prisoners. The news report said they would be released very soon, over the next few days. The idea is that releasing prisoners helps bring peace in the country, as both the Afghan government and the Taliban sit together to determine a political settlement in the country.
It is a fair judgment that visions to bring peace and solidarity in the country despite the odds, where Afghan could follow their dreams with complete peace of mind. But, this move leaves me with thoughts in my head, as I have been languishing behind the bars with no charges for 13 years.
It was Dwight D. Eisenhower, overall Allied commander in the battle against the Nazis and later the Republican U.S. president, who said: “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.” If a Republican American military man could see this more than half a century ago, then surely so can the rest of us. Perhaps even the current Republican American president can see it, though he dodged the Vietnam War and said that people who got killed fighting Hitler were “losers”. |