What exactly are we going to do with all our detainees? That is: you can't just fake-drown a man for months and years on end and then send him back with a free plane ticket and a thanks for the memories post card and expect that that aggression will stand.
Why is this question important? The editorial board of the Dark Steer Report recommend viewing a BBC documentary by the name of The Power of Nightmares. It's a rather interesting glimpse into the structures and history underlying the NeoCon and Al Qaeda movements. Incomplete, perhaps, but enough to introduce one to Sayyid Qutb, who is the reason behind this post.
Our concern, dude, is that whatever horrors we may have inflicted on innocent men and women may be visited tenfold upon our heads. Check the story of Qutb and see that he was loud and obnoxious before imprisonment, but it was the torture that radicalized him.
Now we've got pens and planes and prisons full of swarthy individuals of varying degrees of innocense and we've mock-drowned and beaten and stress-positioned and sleep-deprived them for quite some time now. And now they may get access to the courts? What happens to these men when they go free?
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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