You're picked off the street in Pakistan because your life-long enemy has told the US that you are a member of al-Qaeda. You've spent a year or more in prison at Guantanamo. You don't know what the evidence against you is; it may include hearsay (which not even the great Amercian judge, Judge Judy, allows). You can't invoke the protections of the Geneva Convention although every aspect of your capture and imprisonment has been conducted by the military. You may have been tortured.
Do we really want to be the country that allows this kind of treatment in the 21st century? Are we really any safer because 450 people are imprisoned in Guantanamo?
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How about you're one of 60 headless bodies found on a side street in Ramadi? Gitmo sounds like paradise.
Which I suppose, Will, explains why some of the Gitmo detainees have commited suicide.
It's old, it's been done to death, but it's still true:
"Two wrongs don't make a right."
I respect your opinion, RJ, but consider it a moral equivalency that I cannot support. Peace.
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