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To: Road Walker who wrote (236103)	6/6/2005 8:32:59 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1572942

The Bush administration appears to have opened a whole new front in its war on terror: a forceful, full-scale defense of the morality of its detention-camp policies. First came harsh criticism of Newsweek magazine for its since-retracted charge of Koran abuse at the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. More recently top officials have pushed back - hard - against Amnesty International's use of "gulag" to describe Guantánamo's conditions. That's exactly right. This administration thinks a good defense is a strong offense. They also don't think torture and the abuse of prisoners is all that bad. That rather be able to do it inhouse and save the money of shipping the prisoners to other country who have a more 'liberal' view of torture. The intensity and coordination of administration remarks on this issue may reflect a belated recognition of the stakes involved. Rightly or not, to much of the world the abuse of prisoners in US custody may now be emblematic of American foreign policy as a whole. I am not sure that anything can be done about world opinion at this point.

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