A Shameful Opinion Piece from the the Sydney Morning Herald
I just read THE most insane piece that I’ve seen in quite some time. I found it on Yahoo News in the “The Week” section and it was written by The Week’s Editorial Staff. Title: 10 Years of Gitmo: The World’s Vortex of Shame.
I won’t provide a link, lest I add more site visits to such utter absurdity, so here’s the key excerpt:
Wednesday is the 10th anniversary of one of the “blackest moments of the war on terror,” says Elizabeth O’Shea at the Sydney Morning Herald: The opening of Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
It will get much less attention than last year’s 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, says Elizabeth O’Shea in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, but Wednesday marks a decade since “one of the blackest moments of the war on terror: The opening of Guantanamo Bay detention camp.” Gitmo still holds 171 of the 779 prisoners who have been detained there — without “a fair trial and the presumption of innocence.” Eighty-nine of today’s detainees have been cleared for release, but are stuck in limbo after Congress blocked their transfer. Gitmo “represents an affront to the bedrock principles that underpin Western legal systems,” O’Shea argues, and “as a society, we have paid a hefty price” for this miscarriage of justice. Here, an excerpt:
The prison has become a vortex of shame. Fundamental legal principles such as the right to due process should be respected regardless of circumstances.
Poorly written, yes. But even more poorly reasoned. O’Shea misses a few key points. Such as the fact that these are not criminal detainees, these are enemy combatants. They are not US citizens arrested in the States or even abroad for federal criminal violations, they are captured enemies fighting a war they have declared on the United States.
Further, only a far Left-wing writer like O’Shea could reason that Gitmo, not the 9/11 attacks, or the human rights violations in North Korea, Iran, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, is the “world’s vortex of shame.” How sickeningly pathetic.
This is the Votex of Shame??? (Image via Wikipedia)
