The new Detainee Review Board (DRB) procedures for the approximately 600 detainees currently held in Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, are an improvement over the existing review regime, which has resulted in prolonged and unjust detention and has been a growing source of frustration and decreased Afghan support for U.S. presence in Afghanistan. But these reforms do not address the core of U.S. detention problems that persist in Afghanistan -- problems that undercut America's counterinsurgency goals there.
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