Chapter 10 reflects on the legacy of Guantanamo over the two dozen years since detention began in response to the changes in the United States after 9/11. It considers the impact on American law and how the outer shell of due process was after many years affirmed, but its core hollowed out. It notes how the executive knew that it had captured the wrong people but dishonestly kept up the illusion that it was doing something about terrorism. The US tortured everybody because that was what politics required even though it was well known that the process was not only wrong but futile. It also considers the impact of Guantanamo on American culture. Torture has become embedded and normalized in American life. American exceptionalism was distorted into a sense of unique grievance and entitlement to ignore core constitutional and international law principles. Guantanamo remains an image of cruelty in the service of retaliation against “the other,” in this case, Muslims. It was part of the build-up of a military security apparatus that undergirds a continuous justification for the executive to declare emergencies and suspend legal and ethical principles.