The Real Effects of “Indefinite Detention”
Money quotes:
Putting people in cages for life with no charges — thousands of miles from their homes — is inherently torturous. While Salih acknowledged fighting for the Taliban against the Northern Alliance, there is no evidence that he ever engaged in or planned to engage in terrorist acts or acts of violence of any kind against the U.S. Apparently, though, he’s one of the Worst of the Worst we keep hearing about — Too Dangerous To Release even if we can’t charge him with any crime.
…and then there’s this:
…Penatgon’s status report on Salih reported: “When the detainee gets released, he hopes to go back to Yemen and get married. Once married, the detainee intends to go to school and become a history or geography teacher.”
I’m about done listening to excuses on how Obama needs to bide his time, and how he can’t waste political capital on trite matters like habeas corpas and human rights violations. It makes me sick that I live in a country where this is going on, out in the open, and the political and media establishments are cheering it all on.
Keep your promises, Mr. President. Now please.
http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/
I kind of agree with Rall..
Part of the problem too is the pathetic nature of the media in the US, looking for Obama to “solve” everything..example: “What will he say in his speech to the Muslim World? How will the Muslim World react?” How pathetic and juvenile is the US media? What the F”#$ is the “Muslim World”???? There are one billion Muslims spread throughout the planet, dozens of countries, hundreds of languages…and Obama is supposed to make it all better with one speech?? There is a kindergarten level of debate in the US that is nauseating..The world is so much more complex than the media and the US government try to make it out to be..I wish Obama would grow a pair, blow off his corporate sponsors, immediately end the over-reasching power of the Pentagon on US policy, and try to Really attack all the complex problems..
Bitter, ex-pat rant finished. Back to baseball now!