CNN is reporting this morning that the detainees at Guantanamo, most of whom arrived there shortly after our invasion of Afghanistan, will receive all of the privileges of the Geneva Convention.
While it is about time that these detainees are granted these rights, what this truly amounts to is grandstanding by this administration in an attempt to lift the third shell in the shell game, expose the ball, and say something along the lines of “See, it was there all the time. We told you that we would give these people substantially the same rights as the Geneva Convention, all along, and now we're doing it.”
What is most deplorable about this is that there was absolutely no reason that these prisoners of war should have been denied these rights to begin with. We are the dominant, neigh, ONLY military superpower in the world. We need to understand that we set the example by how we treat those who we capture. Regardless of what their fellow believers or countrymen have done to ours.
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