First of all, I'm not looking to make Gitmo a utopian prison where everyone is happy and no one every gets questioned or their feelings hurt. I'm just not as satisfied as some people are that we're doing the best we can to protect all prisoners basic human rights and especially to protect the rights of those who may be innocent.
As far as our allies still saying we have the high moral ground, that doesn't really mean anything. The terrorists' allies think they have the high ground too, as did the Nazis' allies. (I hesitate to bring up Nazis, because the comparison is WAY overused, but I think it illustrates my point accurately in this case)
I also don't buy the line about "a few bad soldiers," but that's beside the point.
I do agree with you that it's probably still much better in most American run prisons than terrorist run ones, but being better than terrorists isn't saying much.
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Re: "just" a few hundred inmates...
Date: 2005-06-24 06:53 pm (UTC)As far as our allies still saying we have the high moral ground, that doesn't really mean anything. The terrorists' allies think they have the high ground too, as did the Nazis' allies. (I hesitate to bring up Nazis, because the comparison is WAY overused, but I think it illustrates my point accurately in this case)
I also don't buy the line about "a few bad soldiers," but that's beside the point.
I do agree with you that it's probably still much better in most American run prisons than terrorist run ones, but being better than terrorists isn't saying much.