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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sam who wrote (131257)5/4/2004 12:01:25 AM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Sam, you said. "Seymour Hersh was just on Charlie Rose. He said, look, they did the same kind of thing to John Walker Lindh in the first week after they captured him, you think they're going to treat Iraqis differently?"

As I said in my post, I'm a little skeptical of all the crocodile tears and protestations that "Americans don't do things like that."

There are plenty of Americans who'll not only do things like that; they'll enjoy doing them. The real problem is either the breakdown of institutional safeguards to make sure that doesn't happen or, more likely, the cold-blooded decision by the people in charge to encourage such activities for the purpose of "interrogation."

But I have to ask again, why did so many of us gleefully and unquestioningly accept the change of heart of the "singing bird" prisoners, chuckle about the option of sending them to Egypt or Jordan where they "know how to make them talk," and then suddenly become righteous about how Americans values don't lend themselves to the torture of prisoners?
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