Behold, the most shockingly faulty logic to ever enter a human mind:

How do you spell blowback?

Maybe this technically isn’t blowback. More like creating terrorists. I suppose now the argument for indefite [sic] detentions will be something along the lines of:

We can’t release the prisoners because, if they weren’t actually terrorists before we locked them in our gulag and tortured them for information, they almost certainly will become terrorists if we let them go.

Future generations will study Jeff’s words with an equal mix of befuddled amusement and disgust.

They will wonder how anyone could possibly come to posit the theory that an otherwise disinterested young Middle Eastern man decided to blow himself up in Iraq as retribution for a brief stay in an American military prison, nearly three years after being released to his home country, after having said this during his hearing:

“I don’t blame the Americans for what they did by bringing us over here and detaining us over here. If I were in their place I would go out and look for terrorism all over the world like they did but I have a feeling it is going to be a just decision by the Americans. That is my feeling. I would do the same thing if I were in their shoes. I would capture the bad people, the terrorists and bring them over here and detain them.”

They will wonder how Jeff instinctively rushed to the defense of a soldier who went AWOL from the Kuwaiti military in order to join forces with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and later became a suicide bomber in Iraq, over the testimony of his own country’s defense agencies, who correctly deemed the suspect a “continued threat to the United States and its Allies.”

They will wonder how Jeff came to take the final piece of evidence of the man’s terrorist proclivity as proof of his innocence.

And then they will question why such thinking had become so commonplace among liberal Democrats at the turn of the century, and why so few were willing to call them on it.