Comments on: Great Job, America! (Continued) http://spoonfighter.com/archives/13 A funny, frequently updated blog from Denver, Colorado, about current events, politics, media, humor, ideas, entertainment and life. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:22:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Great Job, America! (Continued) by: SpoonFighter - Meditations On Absurdity» Blog Archive » Day 10,936 http://spoonfighter.com/archives/13#comment-74 Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:54:23 +0000 http://spoonfighter.com/archives/13#comment-74 [...] The tension between idealism and realism - it’s been on my mind since Amnesty International ripped the US a hole for Guantanamo. I wrote a couple bitter posts about that. In short, I wonder how we can justify abusing one group of people’s inalienable human rights in order to protect our own; to put it another way: if America is supposedly about values, rather than mere survival, why are we compromising those values in order to survive? (1) (2) [...] […] The tension between idealism and realism - it’s been on my mind since Amnesty International ripped the US a hole for Guantanamo. I wrote a couple bitter posts about that. In short, I wonder how we can justify abusing one group of people’s inalienable human rights in order to protect our own; to put it another way: if America is supposedly about values, rather than mere survival, why are we compromising those values in order to survive? (1) (2) […]

]]> Comment on Great Job, America! (Continued) by: Peter Larson http://spoonfighter.com/archives/13#comment-7 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:59:59 +0000 http://spoonfighter.com/archives/13#comment-7 Amnesty Intl. has never even been to the U.S. facilities at Guantanamo. I don't mean to say that our govt. can do no wrong, but a mere accusation is not proof. I'm not trying to say that the guys are happily sipping mint tea all day but that their treatment does not constitute "human rights abuse". They are prisoners of war. Unfortunately things happen in war and one of them is the need to get information from captured combatants. I want to see them treated as humanely as possible, but I'd rather see their discomfort if it means preventing another 9/11 Amnesty Intl. has never even been to the U.S. facilities at Guantanamo. I don’t mean to say that our govt. can do no wrong, but a mere accusation is not proof.

I’m not trying to say that the guys are happily sipping mint tea all day but that their treatment does not constitute “human rights abuse”. They are prisoners of war. Unfortunately things happen in war and one of them is the need to get information from captured combatants. I want to see them treated as humanely as possible, but I’d rather see their discomfort if it means preventing another 9/11

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