out of the blue

Charles Stross, the writer of Accelerando, rants about the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, the famous place where the United States decided to ignore all modern rules of engagement and torture prisoners in order to force them to divulge information. The most haunting words:

"kindly reflect: if you support the war on terror, then you're also supporting a policy that has brought concentration camps back to the western world." (link)

I don't know about the rest of you, but I have little faith in our current administration. When reports of torture came out, there should have been a HUGE reaction. We needed to show the world that we weren't like that. We don't torture people. Instead, the Pentagon decided to edit out parts of the Geneva convention from our policies like the part that forbade "humiliating and degrading treatment" of detainees, justified by the fact that "it would restrict the United States' ability to question detainees." We can't show the world that we aren't inhuman, because that's precisely what we are. The government decided that it is worth trampling our morality in the mud to gain ground in a misguided war.

Remind me again why Bush is thought of as a Christian leader?

[ Info from Pointing the finger and Torture: It's the New Black ]