Saturday, May 17, 2008
Doing what we do best
It is only natural that the US, which leads the world in number and percentage of the population in prison, would be exporting that which we do best.
The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come.If we can't leave them with a function ing democracy, we might as well give them the best damn prison our tax dollars can buy. Maybe even two or three.
The proposed detention center would replace the cavernous, makeshift American prison on the Bagram military base north of Kabul, which is now typically packed with about 630 prisoners, compared with the 270 held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
But American officials now concede that the new Afghan-run prison cannot absorb all the Afghans now detained by the United States, much less the waves of new prisoners from the escalating fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
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