Gitmo No, Genocide Yes
I just glanced through this article on Yahoo about TV stations in Sudan going off the air to protest Gitmo. This really pisses me off. A country with one of the worst record on human rights is protesting OUR treatment of prisoners? Don't get me wrong, there's nothing about Gitmo that's worth defending, but Sudan? WTF? Just to put things in perspective, this is a country that's resisting UN peacekeepers that would protect the Christians in Darfur from genocidal massacres tacitly approved by the government. This is a bit like the Soviets back in the day criticizing capitalism by pointing to homelessness.
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 5:59 PM
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On a slightly related note, anyone who missed the talk on Gitmo Commissions by the two JAG speakers really missed out.
We are making up a whole new legal system on the fly in order to deal with a new kind of war. And it really ain't pretty at all.
If we were doing to the refugees (sorry, Internally Displaced Persons) coming out of New Orleans what we are doing in Gitmo, then Sudan may have a point.
Armen, your point about the horrors of the genocide in Darfur is well-taken. I think most people would agree with you that genocide in sheer evilness trumps all other human rights violations hands-down, even the allegations of torture and CID treatment coming out of Cuba. But I think the lesson we need to learn is that we shouldn't provide political ammunition to other countries by failing to uphold human rights in our own. Sudan would never have this opportunity to one-up us if we hadn't decided to throw the Geneva Conventions out the window at Guantanamo. The US can't get on its high horse anymore. We kicked that horse right out from underneath us.
Why? Because we are morons. Only morons kick a perfectly good horse.
Yeah, instead of dismissing the comments because they come from Sudan the president should say, "Crap, even Sudan can look down on us. Maybe I should rethink this whole defying international human rights standards thing."
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