Oops. Our Bad.

Dear World and future generations,

Oops. Our bad.

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US Government


PS: So, while the United States government felt that detaining people in Guantanamo Bay and subjecting them to interrogation methods that were unconstitutional and in violation of international law, the government did this to protect innocent people. Really? Because when one thinks of the perfect way to create enemies where none existed before, this methodology pops into mind, but such actions probably are not the best way to protect innocent lives.

According to Tom Lasseter, "Militants found recruits among Guantanamo's wrongly detained."

Mohammed Naim Farouq was a thug in the lawless Zormat district of eastern Afghanistan . He ran a kidnapping and extortion racket, and he controlled his turf with a band of gunmen who rode around in trucks with AK-47 rifles.

U.S. troops detained him in 2002, although he had no clear ties to the Taliban or al Qaida. By the time Farouq was released from Guantanamo the next year, however - after more than 12 months of what he described as abuse and humiliation at the hands of American soldiers - he'd made connections to high-level militants.

In fact, he'd become a Taliban leader. When the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency released a stack of 20 "most wanted" playing cards in 2006 identifying militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan - with Osama bin Laden at the top - Farouq was 16 cards into the deck.

A McClatchy investigation found that instead of confining terrorists, Guantanamo often produced more of them by rounding up common criminals, conscripts, low-level foot soldiers and men with no allegiance to radical Islam - thus inspiring a deep hatred of the United States in them - and then housing them in cells next to radical Islamists.

So, instead of detaining those who were responsible for the deaths of so many people, the United States government mixes up a recipe to turn people that posed no such national security threat, the guise under which they were detained, into real threats.

Given the gravity of the situation, an "our bad" wouldn't be the appropriate response. How about an ever-patriotic bit of encouragement for such a misguided administration (and those who voted for it twice):


Way to go?




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