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Just Shut It Down - New York Times by Decius at 9:28 am EDT, May 28, 2005 |
] Husain Haqqani, a thoughtful Pakistani scholar now ] teaching at Boston University, remarked to me: "When ] people like myself say American values must be emulated ] and America is a bastion of freedom, we get Guantánamo ] Bay thrown in our faces. When we talk about the America ] of Jefferson and Hamilton, people back home say to us: ] 'That is not the America we are dealing with. We are ] dealing with the America of imprisonment without trial.'" Friedman is fucking pissed about Gitmo. |
Just Shut It Down - New York Times by Rattle at 10:07 am EDT, May 28, 2005 |
] If you want to appreciate how corrosive Guantánamo has ] become for America's standing abroad, don't read the Arab ] press. Don't read the Pakistani press. Don't read the ] Afghan press. Hop over here to London or go online and ] just read the British press! See what our closest allies ] are saying about Gitmo. And when you get done with that, ] read the Australian press and the Canadian press and the ] German press. ] Husain Haqqani, a thoughtful Pakistani scholar now ] teaching at Boston University, remarked to me: "When ] people like myself say American values must be emulated ] and America is a bastion of freedom, we get Guantánamo ] Bay thrown in our faces. When we talk about the America ] of Jefferson and Hamilton, people back home say to us: ] 'That is not the America we are dealing with. We are ] dealing with the America of imprisonment without trial.'" Friedman is pissed about Guantánamo Bay. Enjoy your NYT Op-Ed while you still can.. |
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