] 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 |