exquisitely articulated.
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novapsycheShame of Guantanamo
[T]he International Committee of the Red Cross has voiced concern about the deteriorating mental health of those in military detention for more than 18 months; 21 of the captives in the U.S. war on terrorism have tried suicide, some more than once. They occupy a legal no- man's-land without access to lawyers or visitors and without being criminally charged.
[...] U.S. investigators have had the better part of two years to collect evidence, and should be ready to charge those deserving to be tried. Keeping a filled lockup at Guantanamo, while active terrorists roam the world, is not going to win the post-Sept. 11 war.
[T]he International Committee of the Red Cross has voiced concern about the deteriorating mental health of those in military detention for more than 18 months; 21 of the captives in the U.S. war on terrorism have tried suicide, some more than once. They occupy a legal no- man's-land without access to lawyers or visitors and without being criminally charged.
[...] U.S. investigators have had the better part of two years to collect evidence, and should be ready to charge those deserving to be tried. Keeping a filled lockup at Guantanamo, while active terrorists roam the world, is not going to win the post-Sept. 11 war.
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
Date: 2003-10-18 11:42 pm (UTC)If I'd been locked up like that for 2+ years, especially if I were innocent, "mayhem" would be putting it lightly.
We're breeding our own enemies.