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James Monroe said it this way: "National honor is national property of the highest value." You have to wonder what he would have made of Guant??namo. We keep getting reminders--there was another on March 26, with the first conviction of a Guant??namo detainee--that it remains a place where the national honor is in play, where the U.S. image in the eyes of the world is daily up for grabs...
David Hicks is an Australian who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001. It wasn't until after almost five years of detention at Guant??namo that he was brought to trial before a U.S. military judge. At the end of a tumultuous day, he pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist organization, a charge stemming from time spent in an al-Qaeda training camp...
...also learned recently that almost as soon as Rumsfeld's successor, Robert Gates, assumed his new job, he started pushing to shut down Guant??namo. It was too tainted in the eyes of the world, he argued, for its verdicts to be accepted. He lost the fight, but it spoke of a shift in attitude in high places. Gates implied what many Americans have suspected for a while--that Guant??namo, too, is a lamentable case, one that does the U.S. more harm than good...
This approach squares with Administration policy on other "enemy combatants." Whether they are American citizens held in the U.S. or foreigners held at Guant??namo Bay, the White House has insisted that they fall beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts because the President has exclusive power to wage war and deny "combatants" the rights of ordinary citizens. The Supreme Court rejected that argument, although last Tuesday the Washington court of appeals upheld a law eliminating the right of foreign detainees at Guant??namo Bay to file for habeas corpus...
...Americans, believing him to be the sort of "moderate" that Washington was seeking to work with. Noorzai says, however, that this would lead to his first betrayal by the Americans. Instead of incorporating his friend into the Afghan government, the Americans took Muttawakil to the U.S.-run prison at Guant??namo Bay. He would not be freed for 21 months. Noorzai was furious...