Apparently, We Are a Nation of Weenies

This is a bit off-topic for this blog, but I couldn't help myself. It seems that too many Americans, after seeing films like "Con Air", "Faceoff" and the like are sure that if a villain is evil enough, that it somehow imbues him with superpowers and makes him able to outwit and overpower any police or army arrayed against him, as well as withstand treatment that would kill ten lesser men. The flap is over the disposition 240 detainees in Guantanamo, who are apparently SO EVIL that they are too dangerous to bring onto United States soil. Even most of the people of Montana are skeered of them, as both of that state's Democratic senators wet their pants over a town's offer to house the prisoners in its jail. Full story here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/us/politics/20detain.html?pagewanted=1&sq=guantanamo&st=cse&scp=2
Notwithstanding the fact that escapes from high security federal prisons are statistically insignificant, these prisoners have been broken by torture for the last seven years, and they haven't been convicted of anything, i.e. their dangerousness hasn't even been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. If they are going to provoke terrorist attacks on the prison towns, why haven't there been any on the town where Ramsay Youssef (the 1994 World Trade Center bomber) is housed?
This is another example of how Democrats can be Republicans' best friends and play right into their hands. Here was an opportunity to convince the people that we can be safe while we use due process to convict those who have committed crimes against us. It would bury once and for all the Bush doctrine of committing human rights violations with impunity in the name of security. Instead we get the Dems cowering behind Jack Nicholson ("You can't handle the truth!", "You need me on that wall!", blah, blah, blah) We have the most powerful military in the world, spending more in a year than the rest of the world combined. We can't guard 240 men adequately?
Here in Michigan, we have a few federal prisons, and a couple of closed Air Force bases, the closing of which devastated the local communities. Why not give Michigan the $80M to make a new "home" for these guys while they await trial. We could fly them up to Selfridge in a C-130 and get Ted Nugent and his friends to guard them around the clock. We need the money. Con Air indeed.