Eric, here are two pieces published today about Gitmo http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brent_mickum/2007/01/post_885.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1985990,00.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 4:53 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot > Joerg ecrit: Wars of deliberate aggression, concentration > camps, torture, Ermaechtigungsgesetze, embedded press and > total desinformation... > > > A parallel "war of deliberate aggression" would be if the > USA invaded peaceful, metric Canada. > > To call Gitmo a "concentration camp" is a bit of a stretch. > In addition to the obvious difference in comfort between the > two, Gitmo has a different purpose than Dachau. It's more > like a stockade for implementing the first phase of a > criminal investigation. The point of Gitmo is to try to > extract (nontorture-produced) information from the > terrorists: prisons are for punishing, Gitmo is for getting > prisoner X to reveal that he knew Y, so an intelligence > analyst can piece together the esoteric jigsaw puzzle of > al-Qaeda. > > Torture of terrorist leaders like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is > not something I'd wince at, given the stakes and the person > tortured. However, as a general policy it is of course to be > deplored. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html