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...commemorated the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. government continued to hold 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 civilization? If we ever come to a "clash of civilizations," as some historians have suggested is possible, or to the religious war imagined by others, we will owe that exclusively to the hypocrisy and criminal behavior of the U.S. government. Roberto Hollnagel São Paulo...
...Ferguson's fast-forward history of 9/11 from the vantage point of 2036, neglected to mention that the Iraq invasion was illegal and that, as a consequence, George W. Bush is a war criminal. Ferguson also left out Abu Ghraib, the killings at Haditha and the concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay. When people look back on this decade, they will see that Bush and the neoconservatives destroyed the ability of the U.S. to champion human rights, freedom and democracy and made it morally bankrupt. John Devere-Loots Kloof, South Africa...
...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...