The 20-year sentence given to John Walker Lindh is a disgrace, but so too is the open-ended detention of the majority of the men in Guantánamo, who did nothing more than Lindh – the 58 Yemenis still held because of Congressional scaremongering and Obama’s cowardice, the 31 men held because they cannot return home safely, and because America is unwilling to provide them with a new home, and, I can say with confidence, the majority of the 46 other men that the President, disgracefully, wants to hold forever because he regards them as dangerous even though he has no evidence against them that would stand up in any court. More here.