In case you missed today’s Fresh Air broadcast, Terry Gross interviewed CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen. The interview is worth listening to, or reading.
But there’s a moment right at the end of the interview when Bergen compares Florence, Colorado to Hell. Actually, he’s talking about the Supermax in Florence, not Florence per se, but it’s amusing to think that you have to go through Hell to get to Pueblo.
BERGEN: And there’s a lot of public good in trials, and the United States is perfectly capable of putting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial and we should have done this five years ago. One other point, those guys in the embassy attacks got life without parole. You know, they are going to moulder away in the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, which is about a million times worse than being in Guantanamo.
GROSS: And you think the same will happen with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
BERGEN: Well, he will either be executed, which, I guess, is kind of what he wants, because he’s got a sort of James Bond Jihad complex; or it will be life without parole, which I think Florence, Colorado – it’s as close to hell on Earth as you probably can get.
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