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Here’s something weird. In a recent poll, the New York Times asked people if we should shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay, but they used slightly different wording for half the sample. Here’s the response:
People were actually more in favor of shutting down Guantanamo when told it was holding “suspected terrorists.” Granted, it was only a six point difference and might just be a statistical artifact, but it sure is the opposite of what you’d suspect. Question: is this just some kind of strange outlier, or does it suggest that the events of the past eight years have actually made people more jaded about the supposed danger of “suspected terrorists” than they are about mere “detainees”?
