re: #413 Korla Pundit

I reject this notion that somehow we are more hated or less secure than we were when these people were plotting 9/11, specifically because of Guantanamo.

Were or were not guantanamo and abu garib used as recruitment calls against the U.S.?

And even if it were true, which it isn’t, it would be because the anti-Bush people exaggerated the claims of torture and inflated it into something akin to concentration camps and a war on Islam.

The abuses were pretty serious. No one said concentration camps.

In reality, as prisons go, it is not some horror. But going the other direction now, giving foreign terrorists miranda rights, we are going to be despised as weak and pathetic and seen again as an easy target.

Well. we should follow the law no matter what we do. If that causes us to be seen as pathetic then there is a remedy: change the law.

I don’t think we are seen as weak or easy when we follow our principles.