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...1930s. The free world has much to thank George W. Bush and Tony Blair for, and I for one applaud their courage. Brian Cummings Wirral, England As the U.S. commemorated the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. government continued to maintain several hundred people in an illegal prison at Guantánamo Bay. Don't Americans realize the damage they inflict on their own image, democracy and ultimately Western civilisation? If we ever come to a "clash of civilisations," as some historians have suggested is possible, or to the religious war imagined by others, we will owe it exclusively...
...some of the most pressing issues facing the world? It's easy to dismiss Europe's current, curdled view of things American as something that will change over time. After all, it has done so before. Sure, the argument goes, the Bush Administration has alienated Europe - over Iraq and Guantánamo and global warming, to name but three salient issues - but so did Dwight Eisenhower when he pulled the plug on the British-French-Israeli invasion of Suez, Lyndon Johnson with the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan when he deployed Pershing and cruise missiles despite Continent-wide protests. So maybe...
Human-rights lawyer Gareth Peirce has clients in some of Britain's most high-profile cases, including detainees at Guantánamo Bay and two of those accused last month of plotting to detonate explosives aboard flights between Britain and the U.S. Inspired by the U.S. civil-rights movement, Peirce first made headlines by securing the release of falsely imprisoned i.r.a. suspects. She spoke to Time's Jessica Carsen about law, justice and her portrayal in a Hollywood movie. What are the greatest threats to human rights today? The clear willingness of governments who have a history of considering that...
...Guantánamo as a font of intelligence is a dubious notion, for the value of information obtained under torture is highly questionable. Believing that useful information can still be gleaned from some of the detainees after four years is as stupid, arrogant and shameful as continuing to detain those no longer facing regular questioning. But then Guantánamo has more to do with blind revenge and the display of unlimited power than with obtaining justice. The best way for Americans to fix Gitmo would be to close it and return Guantánamo Bay, a remnant of colonial...
...While I am a great believer in the U.S. as a force for good, the thought of Guantánamo Bay leaves me sickened and disillusioned. The detentions show that in some significant ways, the U.S. has become like its terrorist enemies. Gitmo exists because of a technicality: it is not on U.S. soil. It would have been dismantled long ago if it were in Texas. Wayne Rosen Calgary, Canada...