Abu Guantanamo
Bob Herbert has
tales of the horror:
We know that people were kept in cells that in some cases were the equivalent of animal cages, and that some detainees, disoriented and despairing, have been shackled like slaves and left to soil themselves with their own urine and feces. Detainees are frequently kicked, punched, beaten and sexually humiliated. Extremely long periods of psychologically damaging isolation are routine.
Okay, the kicked, punched, beaten and sexually humiliated sounds bad; not sure the extremely long periods of psychologically blahblahblah are a problem.
Still it is not hard to see the intent of this stuff: to somehow prove George W. Bush is ever bit as intolerant of minorities as Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Except of course that Bush never authorized mass internment of people by virtue off race or religion, only by whether they were allowed combatants by the rules of warfare.
So we are stuck for the time being with the disgrace of Guantánamo, which will forever be a stain on the history of the United States, like the internment of the Japanese in World War II.
It always amuses me that liberals like Herbert are happy to denounce the US for the Japanese internment without ever recognizing that it was the liberal of the century who signed the order.
As for Herbert's point, here is the obvious rebuttal. Roosevelt interned American citizens by the hundreds of thousands because they happened to be Japanese. Are there American citizens at Guantanamo?
