When I lived in Pakistan, if someone had told me that the United States would arrest and secretly hold a person in solitary confinement for three months, I would not have believed it. I thought that such things happen only in places characterized by this administration as "rogue states." Where is this country headed? The strength of a nation is not characterized by what it holds dear in times of peace, but what it holds dear in times of war. Unfortunately, this administration has been all too willing to bend the rules and reinterpret the law. |