Social Sense
First of all, Gitmo is not supposed to be an r&r operation. The detainess are confined there for good reasons. Furthermore, some who have been released have gone back to the Middle East to work further mayhem.
Second, Senator Biden is way out of line. Yes, he has every right to call for an investigaton, but calling for the closing of Gitmo gives moral support to the enemy. Just now, Bill O'Reilly said that Senator Biden refuses to appear on "The Factor" to discuss what he said and the reasons for his statements. Whatever happened to reasonable discussion? Senator Biden's actions remind me of a hit-and-run post.
Third, somebody needs to inform Amnesty International of the true definition of "gulag." Read some modern Russian literature ("A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" comes to mind, even if I have misspelled the title), and you'll find that Gitmo is NOT a gulag. The few infractions there in no way compare to what the Soviets did in their gulags.
Fourth, the leftists' constant attempts to discredit the Bush administration are wearing thin. Those who oppose Bush grasp at every opportunity, real but mostly alleged, to slam our President. It is every American's right to disagree with the administration, but wild proclamations play into the enemies' hands.
This post made me feel better after my airplane conversation last night.
Imagine that: actually getting some perspective on the whole situation on Gitmo! Good description, Mustang. Why can’t those graduates of journalism schools write this way? Or should I ask why: won’t they?
As for Biden, it's another black mark in the Democrats column. Don't they ever want to win another election?
I believe that the book I was thinking of is Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago."
David Limbaugh wrote an excellent commentary on the meaning of 'gulag' @
http://www.davidlimbaugh.com/mt/
...olumn_will.html :
"...In the first place, it might be noted that prisoners of the Soviet camps were generally not those who had declared war on modern civilization, who had taken up arms against the state, or who had aided, abetted and collaborated with those who were at war with the regime. They were not arrested on the battlefield while waging war against the mother country.
No, they were often just political prisoners, whose sin might have been merely to criticize the repressive government -- sometimes in private correspondence. Solzhenitsyn, relating his own arrest, wrote, "I knew instantly I had been arrested because of my correspondence with a school friend, and understood from what direction to expect danger."
The prisoners of the gulag were those who dared dissent from a government that obliterated the very notion of liberty, whereas those at Gitmo are most likely ones who are opposing freedom and democracy in the United States, the Middle East and the rest of the world.
If the Left could bring itself to take a hiatus from its hyperbole in redefining "torture" so as conveniently to encompass the detention practices of the U.S. military in Guantanamo and elsewhere, perhaps it could rediscover the true meaning of torture by perusing the pages of Solzhenitsyn's gripping account...."
I submit that AI's 'gulag' label is worse than hyperbole--it's a LIE!
I just saw this in the June 8 Washington Post: The Secretary General of Amnesty International is Irene Khan. Perhaps that last name explains the "gulag" label.
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