U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan
I think that the tendency of the U.S. to shift unamerican activities abroad is a great change from what we have done in the past. I for one would be terrified if there was a prison in my back yard that held people who had not been charged with any crime but still were thought to be a danger to society. It would obviously be flagrantly in opposition to common American values. But thankfully Afghanistan is not in my back yard, it is in the back yard of people whose common values have become accustomed to such tyrannical practices for thousands of years. And afterall we are trying win there hearts and minds, what better way to do that then to give them something they can relate to, let them know we are in this together. before you know it we’ll be hugging it out.
Officials are scaling back plans to shift prisoners into Afghan custody in a stark acknowledgment that the U.S. is likely to hold prisoners overseas for years.
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