Guantanamo's relative place.
Yesterday I noted that Guantanamo was being criticized by the Saudis. Well, today an Afghan delegation declared that prison conditions there were "humane."
So, the definition is narrowing. On the scale of relative horribleness and human rights, Guantanamo falls somewhere below Saudi standards, but above an Afghani prison. I'm so proud.
(Oh, and it's well below UN standards.)
So, the definition is narrowing. On the scale of relative horribleness and human rights, Guantanamo falls somewhere below Saudi standards, but above an Afghani prison. I'm so proud.
(Oh, and it's well below UN standards.)
posted by mikevotes at
7:19 AM
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I recognize that the Saudi evaluation was partly based on domestic politics, and that the Afghan evaluation can't be trusted because of their utter dependence on the US to remain in existence.
But, I wanted to point out that we've gone from British and European condemnations to evaluations by some of the worst human rights actors in the world. That's the area of the scale we're now operating in.
Mike
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