The guards at Guantanamo prison are already planning for operating into 2017.

To clear the name of the United States of America, we must put an end to imprisonment without trial. Each prisoner is entitled to a fair trial or release. If that means a risk that a few of them will engage in terrorism, that does not change what justice means. But Americans need not worry about this, because it will not amount to much. It will be much less than the terrorism that the Guantanamo prison inspires in the millions of Muslims that the US has not yet imprisoned.