Will the world cooperate with a bunch of torturers?
You know the EU (and maybe others) will not extradite prisoners to the US if they may face the death penalty. Will they continue to cooperate with a country that sanctions torture and privately rewrites the Geneva Conventions to suit itself?
Will this be the end of Bush's "Global War on Terra" or seriously impede it?
I thought that was mainly Eastern Euro countries that have some history of totalitarian governments and torture themselves. How much complicity was there in "Old Europe"?
We depend on international cooperation to catch terrorists. How can they cooperate with a country that tortures and imprisons without trial? We wouldn't release the terrorist Posada under the same logic.
The latest legislation is going to make terrorists harder to catch, not easier. I keep wondering why nobody who is against this loss of our rights brings up the detriment to international cooperation. Remember when the New York Times wrote the story about the wiretapping? The Bush cabal and the right wing insisted that other countries would stop cooperating with us over that one little peep from the Times that was already known.
I'd really like an explanation of why this issue isn't talked about.
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