Friday, March 18, 2005

 

Afghanistan is one huge US jail

From Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark at the Guardian Washington likes to hold up Afghanistan as an exemplar of how a rogue regime can be replaced by democracy. Meanwhile, human-rights activists and Afghan politicians have accused the US military of placing Afghanistan at the hub of a global system of detention centres where prisoners are held incommunicado and allegedly subjected to torture. The secrecy surrounding them prevents any real independent investigation of the allegations. "The detention system in Afghanistan exists entirely outside international norms, but it is only part of a far larger and more sinister jail network that we are only now beginning to understand," Michael Posner, director of the US legal watchdog Human Rights First, told us.
# posted by Charles @ 3/18/2005 10:44:00 PM
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Let's see:

We were supposed to get rid of the Taliban, and we failed (they're now back in control of every place other than Kabul).

We were supposed to improve the lot of Afghan women, and we failed.

We were supposed to catch Osama, and we failed.

We wanted to suppress the opium trade, and we failed.

And Afghanistan is one of our "success stories"?!
# posted by Blogger Phoenix Woman : 3/18/2005 11:06:00 PM
 
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