Sloan, Cliff - short clip - TheOnesWithTheWorstLuck
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| - | One point that is very, very important is | 0:00 |
| that sometimes people say, oh, everybody who's left | 0:03 | |
| at Guantanamo is the worst of the worst, | 0:05 | |
| and they wouldn't be there for so long | 0:08 | |
| unless they were the worst of the worst, | 0:10 | |
| and that could not be more wrong. | 0:12 | |
| Many of those and many of those approved for transfer, | 0:15 | |
| the reason that they're stuck at Guantanamo | 0:19 | |
| is because they're from Yemen | 0:21 | |
| and they can't go back to their home country. | 0:23 | |
| It's very, very important | 0:25 | |
| to resettle them to other countries, | 0:26 | |
| but it's also very important to correct this misperception | 0:28 | |
| that everybody who's there, somehow, | 0:32 | |
| is the worst of the worst. | 0:35 | |
| For those from Yemen, they're the ones with the worst luck. | 0:36 | |
| And that's why they're stuck there. | 0:39 | |
| So the problem of Yemen, of the people from Yemen, | 0:41 | |
| is central to making a lot of progress on Guantanamo, | 0:45 | |
| but the situation in Yemen itself | 0:49 | |
| does not materially change anything | 0:52 | |
| because we had reached the conclusion | 0:54 | |
| that we needed to resettle those from Yemen | 0:56 | |
| because of the security situation. | 0:58 | |
| So I think that process of transferring the Yemenis | 1:00 | |
| to other countries and resettling them, | 1:04 | |
| the ones who are approved for transfer, | 1:07 | |
| that needs to go forward full speed ahead | 1:09 | |
| but that's been the operating plan | 1:12 | |
| and I would expect that to continue. | 1:14 |
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