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Most Americans seem to take a pretty robust
attitude to the treatment of the alleged Al Quaeda terrorists
currently held in Cuba and, like Donald Rumsfeld, probably lose little sleep
over their situation. Understandably so, given the
terrible events of September 11, and the danger that Al Quaeda plan more.
Americans also find European questioning of their treatment as at best puzzling, and probably attribute it to the knee-jerk
anti-Americanism of so many misguided people on this side of the
Atlantic. This is why
America’s real friends, and iGreens regard themselves as just that, must speak
out. We don’t yet know all the details. If treating the Al
Quaeda as prisoners of war under the Geneva convention prohibits interrogation to prevent further
acts of mass murder, then the Geneva convention is an ass and you are right to
ignore it. If treating them
as as ordinary criminals would have delayed extraditing them to secure prisons, and
risked further atrocities, then again the law is an
ass and you were right to remove them from Afghanistan by force.
Trying them in military courts may be the best and safest option.
Those who are found guilty of planning mass murder deserve to die, and to
minimise retaliation, any executions should be carried out swiftly. However, America is defending civilisation in this war.
In civilised countries people are innocent until proven guilty in a
proper court. The Red Cross
and other human rights organisations should be allowed to see how they are being
treated, and America should have
to defend its actions in the court of world opinion.
Don't worry about the loony left. They will always whinge.
Reasonable people understand if you have to break a few rules, so long as you explain what
you're
doing and why. You’ve
won the first phase of the war, so you don’t need to be gratuitously vindictive. Be firm and just
and show the rest of the world why freedom, democracy,
and capitalism are worth defending. Jim Thornton 19 Jan 2002
Update 24 August 2002Some readers have misread the above as a veiled attack on America. Nothing could be further from the truth. Read iGreens response to 9/11 here.
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