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All PostGlobal Bloggers The Question Posted at 5:09 PM ET, 09/ 9/2006 President Bush this week proposed legislation to reauthorize military commission trials at Guantanamo Bay. But these commissions strip detainees of Geneva Convention rights and permit evidence obtained by physical coercion into the courtroom. In the wake of Abu Ghraib, how will these proposed military commissions affect national security? Will this plan expose our troops, now deployed around the world, to similar treatment?
All (44) Entries Responses to the Question From Readers Post at 11:44 AM ET, 09/11/2006 Rennypolis | On the face of it, this proposed legislation by president Bush weakens US standing within international law by reducing the...
Read Full Comment Post at 8:06 PM ET, 09/ 9/2006 S Peri, Cambridge, MA | It's doubtful that a changed US policy will seriously impact the treatment of troops around the world.
Guantanamo and My Wehrmacht Uncles Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff | Germany - When I was about 14, I first saw a picture of my uncle in uniform, a Wehrmacht uniform. It had never occurred to me that my family could have had a role in Hitler's dictatorship.
Torture, Unlike Terror, Can Be Justified Saul Singer | Jerusalem, Israel - Torture is the flip side of terrorism. Some justify terrorism for the right cause, others say its always unacceptable. Similarly, some support torture under certain circumstances, others are always opposed. But there is a profound difference in these debates: While torture may be used to prevent terrorism,...
US Human Rights Abuses Embolden Authoritarian Regimes Masha Lipman | Moscow, Russia - It is highly unusual for a leader of a great nation to publicly justify torture, but this is pretty much what President Bush did last week. Talking about the interrogation of a terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah the US president said that after "he stopped talking" he was...
Denounce Torture Everywhere: Words Can Work Jamai Aboubakr | Casablanca, Morocco - The Bush administration's announcement of new rules governing interrogations of prisoners is a step in the right direction. A major lesson can be drawn from the decision: public denouncements can work. To be sure, not all regimes using torture are highly sensitive to public opinion.
Torture's Three I's: Illegal, Immoral, Ineffective Daoud Kuttab | Amman, Jordan - Whenever we hear Americans trying to argue why they should not approve torture, they give the argument that this could backfire in the future when Americans might be arrested. While this argument might be convincing to some in the military , torture should not be outlawed because...
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