[lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:37:41 -0000

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
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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.
>
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