...Whenever the government wishes to extra-legally detain, torture, or unethically and in contravention to accepted morality experiment upon people, the subjects are almost invariably people we could do with more of in civilian life? The subjects are never people we almost all of us profess to want gone, and they're never openly unpopular types. Subjects are always politically inconvenient, or interesting, or really awesome as people...
On a tangent, it occurs to me to ask, how many Gitmo detainees have dossiers that in fact identify them as reformist, non-radical, secular, Western-sympathizing, and/or liberal? More than I can count on my as yet complete set of ten fingers, I'll warrant...
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