VOA标准英语2015--奥巴马关闭关塔那摩监狱仍存障碍
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2015年(一月)
Obstacles Remain in Obama’s Goal of Guantanamo Closure 奥巴马关闭关塔那摩监狱仍存障碍
WHITE HOUSE—
The Obama administration ended 2014 with the release of more detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On December 30, the Pentagon announced that three Yemenis and two Tunisians were flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement. President Barack Obama is working toward his goal to shut down the facility during his last two years in office.
With the transfer of five detainees to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan, the Obama administration ended 2014 with the removal of 28 prisoners from Guantanamo last year - the largest number since 2009.
“I can tell you that it continues to be an important priority of this administration to ultimately transfer all of the detainees out of Guantanamo," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said when asked this week if the administration is accelerating detainee transfers.
Since taking office in 2009, Obama has not wavered in his promise to close the facility.
During a May 23, 2013 counterterrorism speech at National Defense 1 University, the president called the prison a symbol around the world for an America that flouts 2 the rule of law.
“Given my administration’s relentless 3 pursuit of al-Qaida’s leadership, there is no justification 4 beyond politics for Congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should have never have been opened.”
While the United States works to resettle nearly half of the 127 remaining detainees cleared for release, one of the main obstacles to emptying Guantanamo is 2010 legislation that bans the transfer of prisoners to the United States.
Matthew Levitt, counter-terrorism fellow with The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, says the issue of trying Guantanamo prisoners on U.S. soil has been politicized from the beginning.
“I think our court system is capable. I think our prison system is capable. I don’t think it would put Americans at any more risk than they are now by virtue 5 of having other people like them in the country. It has become a political football,” said Levitt.
Ultimately, keeping Guantanamo open as the number of prisoners is whittled 6 down may be difficult due to the cost - - at nearly $3 million a year per prisoner.
But Levitt says lawmakers should not make cost the rationale for closing the facility -- instead they should shut Guantanamo because it is the right thing to do.
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- The traffic noise is relentless.交通车辆的噪音一刻也不停止。
- Their training has to be relentless.他们的训练必须是无情的。
- There's no justification for dividing the company into smaller units. 没有理由把公司划分成小单位。
- In the young there is a justification for this feeling. 在年轻人中有这种感觉是有理由的。
- He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
- You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。