It would therefore represent an important milestone on this fraught journey forward for the APA to now call for the permanent closure of Guantanamo and the just resolution of the legal cases of the forty prisoners who are still there. Other organizations committed to human rights--ACLU, Amnesty International, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, and Witness Against Torture, among others--have already done so. To join these groups would signal loudly that respect for human dignity and professional ethics had successfully overcome considerations of political and economic expediency at the APA.
In his book Life Lines, the late minister and theologian Forrest Church wrote, "When cast into the depths, to survive we must first let go of things that will not save us. Then we must reach out for things that can." That insight applies here: The United States should let go of Guantanamo, and the APA should help Americans understand why.
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