U. S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton says that the U. S. must stop the arbitrary detention of prisoners not charged with crimes, and must stop torturing prisoners.
That's surprising and most welcome good news.
It would mean her boss, President Obama, would have to close his (yes, his) concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay, and release all those detainees who have been incarcerated in cages there these last ten years--though none of them has been charged with a crime.
It would also mean that the U.S. would have to stop the daily, round-the-clock torture of Pvt. Bradley Manning at Quantico, and either bring charges against him or release him--and give him the honors and medals he deserved for his brave and heroic actions..
Ah, but damn it, she said that Syria had to stop arbitrary detention and torture. Not the U.S. The U.S. is above the law--because it has thousands of nuclear weapons. And it is above the law because it is so far in debt that if it collapses, the whole world is in a mess. Both the U.S. missiles and the U.S. debt are threats.
So the U.S. continues to be a rogue state, and hypocrisy continues to be its national pastime.
Bert Hornback
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