May 14, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Apparently the only change in the new administration's policies for detaining terror suspects is location:
Also fun is how Mr. Obama is apparently completely above the rule of law:The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil -- indefinitely and without trial -- as part of a plan to retool military commission trials that were conducted for prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
So...wait...you said in court that you'd release the photos because the ACLU brought suit. Since when is not doing what you said you'd do in court acceptable? I'm fairly certain that if I agreed in court to do something I would get in rather a lot of trouble for not doing it. However, the president is probably right when he says that revealing what we've been up to in our military facilities could endanger our troops: it's called blowback. Read more here.On Wednesday, the president reversed a recent administration decision to release photos showing purported abuse of prisoners at U.S. military facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Obama cited concern that releasing the pictures could endanger U.S. troops. Mr. Obama ordered government lawyers to pull back an earlier court filing promising to release hundreds of photos by month's end as part a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Fundamental Problems...
Somehow, someway, the Taliban has made steady advances in both Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent months, despite the fact that they're fighting with nothing but guns from the 80's, bombs that would make MacGyver proud, and a particularly angry camel...
So true...and, if we took them out of these countries altogether, not only would they be safer but there would also be much less reason for blowback to occur in the first place.
I love how these decisions - whether by Bush or Obama - are supposedly made to "protect the troops". You know what is a better way to protect the troops: Stop putting them in unwinnable occupations! You are right Bonnie in citing that there is danger to the troops from the blowback that will undoubtedly occur. But again, take the troops out of these countries and it will be a lot harder for them to bare the consequences of the depravity of our policymakers.











