Robert C. Koehler: National vs. human security
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Feb 04, 2021
4 minutes
“It is long past time for . . . a sea change in the United States’ approach to national and human security . . .”
Yes, yes, yes. These words cut to the soul. Can we create a grown-up America? This is how it begins.
The quote is from a letter to President Biden, put forward in early February by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Victims of Torture and signed by 111 organizations, demanding that the new president shut down, at long last, the prison hellhole at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
But the transcends Gitmo, where 40 men are still being held indefinitely, without charges and without
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