Upon enlistment, they were promised seventy-two virgins and a spot in heaven. Instead, they were sent to a place they described as "hell." Like so many other soldiers, their recruiters lied to them.

The United States just released two French nationals from Guantanamo Bay who fought in Afghanistan for the Taliban. "We have emerged from hell," the Islamist duo complain. Recruitment promises aside, what did you think would happen to you upon enlisting with the terrorists? A trip to Club Med?

The United States is, and should be, held to a higher standard than Hussein's Iraq, the Taliban's Afghanistan, and the mullahs' Iran. Before we shed tears for terrorists desiring to kill us, please remember the conditions of Americans held in captivity among the Muslim radicals.

You make it seem like everyone at Guantanamo was recruited into a terrorist orginazation. A good deal of them may have been, but in actuality we don't know. That place is a black hole for public information, and in a country where no one in innocent until proven guilty no one down there has even been charged of anything. You know there's a reason why we put that base there. We couldn't get away with half the shit that goes on there anywhere else in the world. Even the conservative publication The Economist has run heavily loaded cover editorials against this place. Get a clue. Guantanamo is hell. Abusing people were fighting against only serves to piss them off more, which makes this war more explosive, not less.