Glenn Greenwald, Salon: "They hate us for our freedoms"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Friday, Jan 1, 2010 07:02 EST
They hate us for our freedoms
By Glenn Greenwald

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/01/terrorism/index.html

National Review's Cliff May, yesterday:

A Bipartisan Proposal

Step (1): Return all Gitmo detainees to Yemen.

Step (2): Use Predator missiles to strike the baggage-claim area 20 minutes after they arrive.

Just an idea.

Virtually all of the 90 Yemeni detainees currently at Guantanamo have been imprisoned for years despite never having been charged with any crime. Roughly half of them have been officially "cleared for release" -- meaning even the U.S. Government believes they did nothing wrong or pose no danger to the U.S. Two weeks ago, the Obama administration, to its credit, released 6 Yemeni detainees -- after years in captivity -- because a federal court was about to grant their habeas petition on the ground that there is no evidence to justify their detention. In response, people like John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Dianne Feinstein are demanding with a monarchical wave of the hand that all Yemenis be kept imprisoned anyway and not released, and according to this morning's New York Times, the Obama administration now plans to hold the rest of them indefinitely.

That's bad enough on its own terms (and as Yemen exerpt Gregory Johnsen pointed out, it's well known in Yemen that we're imprisoning numerous innocent Yemenis at Guantanamo, which -- like much of what we do -- substantially helps Al Qaeda). But Cliff May thinks we should take them all, including all the innocent ones, and just slaughter them -- and do so in the most cowardly way possible: by dropping a missile on them from the air while they're standing there, unarmed and unsuspecting. And if he suggested this murderous proposal only in humor, that's so warped it might actually be worse.

Remember: radical Islamists -- unlike us -- are uncivilized, bloodthirsty and have no regard for human life or well-established conventions of Western civilization. And they hate us not for what we do or who we are, but because we're so Free and Good.

[johnfunk]

1. "National Review?" More like "Nationalist" Review

Cliff May is one of the tooliest tools in the print and television "news" industry.

[stray cat]

2. They would like to see Sharia law worldwide - democracies are evil

because they put man's law above god's.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. What's your take on this snippet?

"Roughly half of them have been officially "cleared for release" -- meaning even the U.S. Government believes they did nothing wrong or pose no danger to the U.S."

[robdogbucky]

5. You mean

like the Anti-Choicers, Talibornagains, Pat Robertsons, Charter School promoters, C Street dominionists, Christian Identity, Jesus Campers, Jesus on a Trailer Hitch, bible thumping proseltyzing US mercenaries and regular army troops in Muslim countries we have invaded, etc., want to see their beliefs followed worldwide? And quite willing to kill for it?

Like a rosary on a tank turret?

What a photograph that was from the earliest days of the Iraq invasion/occupation.

Making the world safe for democracy one corpse at a time.

Pot meet kettle.



Just my dos centavos

robdogbucky

[virgogal]

3. Since I never heard of Cliff May I don't care what he says. I

will ignore him.