I wish people would stop making "art therapy" jokes about the leaders of Al Qaeda in Yemen. Yes, they were released to inadequate supervision, and that shouldn't have happened. The problems with the "art therapy" jokes are two-fold, though, and I don't think we should be reinforcing either of them.
First, there's the denigration of art therapy, and denigrating art therapy as a tool simply buys into the broad frame of counseling as touchy feely nonsense. There are classes of individuals for which a non-verbal expressive form of therapy is quite effective. Worse, what the Yemeni terrorists got wasn't art therapy; it was a sham to get them out of the Saudi prisons.
And that's the real problem. When we ship people who haven't been convicted of a crime out, we can't monitor their subsequent handling. Guantanamo itself was the threat which created these men, and that's what we need to keep hammering home.
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When you make fun of the Saudis trying to whitewash their criminals, you reinforce the right wing frame that these guys needed to be in Guantanamo. I'd really like people to frame this differently, in order to make the point that should be made.
The fact is, if any of those folks had been properly tried in a civilian court, they'd have wound up imprisoned for life here in the United States. Yes, they might have been able to use the courtroom as a stage, although Federal judges are used to grandstanding defendants, and do a really good job of limiting that nonsense. However, if we'd done the right thing while Bush was in power, and behaved according to our own laws, Muhamad Attik al-Harbi and Said Ali Shari would have both been safely under guard in Colorado, not attempting to rebuild the Caliphate.