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![]() Just Above Sunset
August 7, 2005 - Gitmo, Gutmo
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Odd front-page news at
the end of the week: The Bush administration
is negotiating the transfer of nearly 70 percent of the detainees at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
to three countries as part of a plan, officials said, to share the burden of keeping suspected terrorists behind bars. What? "This is not an effort
to shut down Guantanamo. Rather, the arrangement we have reached with the government of Afghanistan is the latest step in
what has long been our policy - that we need to keep dangerous enemy combatants off the battlefield," Matthew Waxman, deputy
assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, said shortly after leaving Kabul with Prosper. "We, the U.S., don't want
to be the world's jailer. We think a more prudent course is to shift that burden onto our coalition partners." Something is up. … let's start with
this grand article about the United States transferring the detainees from US custody to Afghanistan. this is obviously an
attempt at some Copperfieldian (as in David) attempt at washing our hands of the whole torture ordeal without actually washing
our hands of the whole torture ordeal. I never thought that the benefit of the Great War on Terror … would be that we
could have surrogate prisons in which we can torture our uncharged prisoners of the aforementioned war with ever changing
acronyms. Buried somewhere in that
awful prose is the idea that this is just a way to shift responsibility for all this to third parties we control - it's not
just shifting prisoners. Whatever happened, or happens now, isn't our fault. We are just doing the right thing
- a little late - but the right thing. O'Reilly can buy a ticket to Kabul and indulge is his "executioner fantasies"
there - he can slit throats until he passes out giggling in glee. Those guys will help. We can't let him fly down
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This issue updated and published on...
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