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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (11008)6/10/2005 8:09:39 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
The unclean hands doctrine

Power Line

In her weekly column, Diana West takes a look at the code of conduct in place for dealing with the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The standard operating procedure at this Nazi/Khmer Rouge inspired outpost of the American Gulag is to "handle the Koran as if it were a fragile piece of delicate art." For example, guards who, in special circumstances, need to move a detainee's Koran must first don clean gloves in full view of the detainee. They must then use "two hands at all times when handling the Koran in manner signaling respect and reverence." Care should also be taken "so that the right hand is the primary one used to manipulate any part of the Koran due to the cultural association with the left hand." The book should be conveyed inside a "clean, dry detainee towel." West shows that the unspoken rationale for this drill is that Muslims consider us "unclean."

Stated differently, we are not worthy of handling their book, the one they say inspired them to become terrorists.

The left has constantly claimed that the occasional instances of misconduct directed at prisoners in the war on terror is the product of policies articulated "at the highest levels." Such claims fail to explain, for example, why the abuses at Abu Ghraib occurred at only one prison and essentially on only one shift. However, I'm beginning to find the left's claim plausible in this sense: Faced with regulations like the ones described above, and operating in the context of terrorist prisoners who find it amusing to hurl their urine and feces at guards while maintaining that guards are too unclean to handle the Koran, I might be tempted "accidentally" to drop the Koran from time to time.

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