...That's right: Amherst is ASKING the Obama administration to send them graduates of Gitmo High.  Talk about an open admissions policy.  And given the politics on campus, they'll fit right in at the School Of Middle Eastern Studies.  In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Harvard doesn't try to snatch them up, too. After all, it's a Sharia-friendly campus, and they've never turned down a dollar of terrorist blood money.

I also love the fact that the chairwoman's objection isn't "we don't want Al Qaeda in Amherst," but rather a technical issue.  It must be comforting for every parent of a UMass-Amherst student to know that the town is so inviting to such a "diverse" community.

And besides, if the US military clears them, what could possibly go wrong?...

...It's idiotic, but of course that won't stop it from being enacted. However futile it may be, I feel obliged to point out that (a) there is nothing wrongful about detaining an enemy combatant without trial, let alone conviction, during wartime -- the U.S. has done it in millions of cases throughout our history and even the current Supreme Court reaffirmed combatant detention in 2004 (in fact, it has been federal law since 1798 that, in a declared war, the citizens of an enemy nation-state may be detained just because they are citzens of the enemy -- no requirement that they be soldiers or commit hostile acts); and (b) the main congressional provision that bars relocating Gitmo detainees in the U.S. is the REAL ID Act, which bars admission for aliens who have either (or both) been members of a foreign terrorist organization or (and) have received training in terrorist camps. Given that the idea is to prevent "hostile attacks against the U.S.," there is no requirement that the alien be shown to have committed such acts before the ban kicks in...