Red Cross
I understand these things are never as they seem from reading about them in the newspaper...but good Lord, we, the United States of America, are denying the Red Cross its historic access to prisoners we are holding in secret?!
Was there ever a time when it was more uncomfortable to be an American in the world?
Perhaps in the Philippines during the Spanish - American War.
That was before I was born. I wonder if we denied Red Cross access (if there was such a thing then) to Filipinos we held then?
Whether we have ever done such things in the past, and I am afraid we likely have, I don't know a time when we so blatantly, outloud and in front of the entire world, held them up without shame or embarrassment.
To have become the world's sole super power, so we can seem to behave with impunity, is our everlasting shame.
When others regain their equilibrium, able, as China will one day soon, to challenege us, we will rue the day we turned our backs on international law and decency.
Was there ever a time when it was more uncomfortable to be an American in the world?
Perhaps in the Philippines during the Spanish - American War.
That was before I was born. I wonder if we denied Red Cross access (if there was such a thing then) to Filipinos we held then?
Whether we have ever done such things in the past, and I am afraid we likely have, I don't know a time when we so blatantly, outloud and in front of the entire world, held them up without shame or embarrassment.
To have become the world's sole super power, so we can seem to behave with impunity, is our everlasting shame.
When others regain their equilibrium, able, as China will one day soon, to challenege us, we will rue the day we turned our backs on international law and decency.
posted by Blayney at 1:38 PM
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