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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (132209)5/8/2004 12:59:40 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
What good came out of having those photos released?

Those pictures destroyed two growing myths that needed destroying. One myth was that Americans "don't do things like that, and certainly not at the behest of those we put in charge." The second was that we can "trust" the police power of the government and need not concern ourselves with such liberal concepts as legal protections for the "rights" of the "guilty."

In addition, I wonder if the humiliation and regret will do us some good? Maybe we'll stop smugly believing that anything done in our name is unselfish and noble and that our "superior moral standing" gives us the right to impose our will on the world.

This might help us open up our minds to the possibility that the criticism and resistance we're getting in the Muslim world isn't necessarily from American haters who "hate freedom."

One thing for sure, we've now learned a lot more about why our Attorney General and our Pentagon try to keep total, blanket control of the terrorists and other prisoners, and why they keep them from meeting with those pesky attorneys or those do-gooder Red Cross workers.

Every once in a while it's good to have a practical lesson to reinforce our understanding of why our forefathers valued the rights of the accused and feared the police power of the government more than they feared the release of a few of the guilty.
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