Political Football

By JAMES TARANTO
The Grass Is Always Greener
“Six long-held captives at Guantánamo were sent home, two to Tunisia and four to Yemen, the Pentagon said Tuesday, swiftly drawing denunciations from human rights groups,” the Miami Herald reports:

The Center for Constitutional Rights in New York identified one of the Tunisians as detainee Abdullah bin Omar, 51, and said his return “put him at grave risk for torture and abuse.” . . .

Human Rights Watch also raised concerns. “Most of the detainees desperately want to go home. But there are a small number who are at such grave risk of torture that they would rather stay in Guantánamo,” said Jennifer Daskal, advocacy director in Washington. . . . She urged the Pentagon to establish a “transparent process for this small set of detainees to raise fears of torture and have their claims evaluated, before the U.S. government sends people back to a fate worse than Guantánamo.”

A fate worse than Guantanamo? Who knew there was such a thing? Sad to say, after all the “human rights” groups’ complaints about “torture” at Guantanamo, no one can take them seriously when they warn about the real thing. Didn’t Jennifer Faskal’s parents ever read her the story of the boy who cried wolf?