skippy the bush kangaroo: we hope you like hearing the phrase “american concentration camps”

Sunday, February 26, 2006

we hope you like hearing the phrase “american concentration camps”

a growing afghan prison rivals bleak guantánamo - while an international debate rages over the future of the american detention center at guantánamo bay, cuba, the military has quietly expanded another, less-visible prison in afghanistan, where it now holds some 500 terror suspects in more primitive conditions, indefinitely and without charges.

because that’s what historians are going to call it. in your name, aWol and rummy have ensured that the adjective “american” will resonate in the same moral register as the adjective “nazi" in all future discussion of the history of the early 21st century.

posted by Pudentilla at 5:37 AM |