Talking Sense About Guantanamo
The weak minded -- exemplified by Jimmy Carter and "Slow Joe" Biden -- have called for our detention center at Guantanamo Bay to be shut down.
This is the typical liberal approach. Don't rebut slanders of the kind perpetrated by Amnesty International -- better to capitulate, and implicitly admit wide-scale American wrongdoing (not borne out by the facts, incidentally) by shutting down the center. It's not surprising that Jimmy Carter would take this tack -- as President, he was distinguished by his ability to genuflect to every totalitarian enemy of the United States, while either ignoring or abandoning those fighting for freedom. And it's an important warning sign of the disaster that would characterize a Joe Biden administration (yes, he does hunger to be President).
As Charles Krauthammer has noted, whatever problems exist or allegations levelled at Guantanamo would simply be replicated somewhere else. All this because there have been 7 documented instances of wrongdoing -- some of them minor -- in the course of conducting 28,000 interrogations. If only Jimmy Carter's record were that good!
It's a sign of the decline of education, both in the US and worldwide, that Amnesty International thinks it could get away with comparing Guantanamo to the Russian gulags. Linda Chavez attempts to set the record straight.
And Dennis Prager actually compares the two:
So, for the record, here are some comparisons between the Gulag and Guantanamo, courtesy of David Bosco and published in The New Republic:
Individuals detained:
Gulag: 20 million.
Guantanamo: 750 total.
Number of camps:
Gulag: 476 separate camp complexes comprising thousands of individual camps.
Guantanamo: five small camps on the U.S. military base in Cuba.
Reasons for Imprisonment:
Gulag: Hiding grain; owning too many cows; need for slave labor; being Jewish; being Finnish; being religious; being middle class; having had contact with foreigners; refusing to sleep with the head of Soviet counterintelligence; telling a joke about Stalin.
Guantanamo -- Fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan; being suspected of links to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
Red Cross Visits:
Gulag: none that Bosco could find.
Guantanamo: regular visits since January 2002.
Deaths as a Result of Poor Treatment:
Gulag: at least two to three million (Bosco understates). Guantanamo: no reports of prisoner deaths.
Enough said.
This is the typical liberal approach. Don't rebut slanders of the kind perpetrated by Amnesty International -- better to capitulate, and implicitly admit wide-scale American wrongdoing (not borne out by the facts, incidentally) by shutting down the center. It's not surprising that Jimmy Carter would take this tack -- as President, he was distinguished by his ability to genuflect to every totalitarian enemy of the United States, while either ignoring or abandoning those fighting for freedom. And it's an important warning sign of the disaster that would characterize a Joe Biden administration (yes, he does hunger to be President).
As Charles Krauthammer has noted, whatever problems exist or allegations levelled at Guantanamo would simply be replicated somewhere else. All this because there have been 7 documented instances of wrongdoing -- some of them minor -- in the course of conducting 28,000 interrogations. If only Jimmy Carter's record were that good!
It's a sign of the decline of education, both in the US and worldwide, that Amnesty International thinks it could get away with comparing Guantanamo to the Russian gulags. Linda Chavez attempts to set the record straight.
And Dennis Prager actually compares the two:
So, for the record, here are some comparisons between the Gulag and Guantanamo, courtesy of David Bosco and published in The New Republic:
Individuals detained:
Gulag: 20 million.
Guantanamo: 750 total.
Number of camps:
Gulag: 476 separate camp complexes comprising thousands of individual camps.
Guantanamo: five small camps on the U.S. military base in Cuba.
Reasons for Imprisonment:
Gulag: Hiding grain; owning too many cows; need for slave labor; being Jewish; being Finnish; being religious; being middle class; having had contact with foreigners; refusing to sleep with the head of Soviet counterintelligence; telling a joke about Stalin.
Guantanamo -- Fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan; being suspected of links to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
Red Cross Visits:
Gulag: none that Bosco could find.
Guantanamo: regular visits since January 2002.
Deaths as a Result of Poor Treatment:
Gulag: at least two to three million (Bosco understates). Guantanamo: no reports of prisoner deaths.
Enough said.
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