AntiWar.com
In this administration, enemy combatants become "detainees" if making them "prisoners of war" would tie us down to the Geneva Conventions; the exact definition of torture is unclear and many awful things are allowed, but at any rate "detained enemy combatants" do not fall under the protection of the Geneva Conventions; "tyrants" are bad, but some of our closest allies (especially economic allies) are tyrants; freedom is good, but for some more than others, and "terrorism" seems only to be that violence directed by small groups at the state, and not that by the state towards individuals.
Keep that in mind in the coming months when we're being told why it is so necessary to devote time, energy, lots of money, and way too many human lives to topple the "tyrranical" government in Iran. Then watch with interest as Iraq becomes another Islamic theocracy.
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