Do I need to point out the homo-erotic nature of the whole Abu Ghraib torture scene? Is there a parallel here with ye olde Nazis?

The Neo-cons' fascination with this stuff reflects the same furtive, sweaty love affair with the forbidden monsters of the Id that their goose-stepping forebears succumbed to in the last century - the marriage of cruelty with their suppressed desires. This goes right up the food chain to ol' Wrassler Rummy himself. God, I'd hate to get an indian deathlock from that creepy old sod.

There is a another eerie parallel to be found at Guantanamo. Have you noticed how the guards march around, erect and spotless, at the double? Those guys even defacate by numbers. They are stiffer'n viagra.

Like the SS, they are desperate to avoid going to the front. The worse punishment an SS officer could get was a posting to the eastern front to confront the Russians. They re-doubled their cruelty to please their masters. Anything - anything to avoid meeting the enemy on more equal terms.

So you see the Guantanamo guards hopping to it, smart as paint - anything to avoid the dangers of that nasty Iraq place.

IN FACT, Guantanamo needs Hicksie more than he needs them. Hicks and the others are Guantanamo's raison d' etre. Hicks is their ticket to a safe war, a regular meal, no worries cobber! That goes triple for the officers.

Isn't it just so obvious?

Yes suicide has been committed in "Suicide: an act of asymetric warfare"
Off with the head!
Harry, "asymetric" is spelled with a double 'm' ie. "asymmetric"
What excellent deception where everything is not all well.
From a former journalist too.

the unified field theory of human social interaction is:

"power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely."

america can do what it likes until they meet resistance. when this resistance appears it is labelled criminal if violent, ignorant or selfish if verbal. before you take the view that america is fundamentally good, consider how many native american societies they crushed or extirpated, the invasion and conquest of northern mexico, the brutal repression necessary to liberate the phillipines from selfrule, and on, and on. america is a champion of liberty only when american liberty is involved.

america is only good in hollywood movies, where john wayne punished the 'red devils' who preyed on innocent american farmers. when you finally realize whose land these americans were farming, the red devils become a great deal more understandable.

a similar thing is going on in palestine, where zionist thugs invaded moslem land backed by money and guns from america, established a jewish state, and complain loudly about terrorism when the children of the original owners fight to get their land back.

Guantanamo is vile and should be closed, but what then?

Many of the prisoners _are_ actually dangerous people. Even if they are released, some of them should be watched.

Its far too easy to sneer at America instead of actually saying what you would do if you had to deal with an international movement of islamofascists.

I'm a little over everyone claiming that Orwell supports their point of view. Orwell wrote in 1944 that it would have been 'perfectly proper to shoot' Sir Oswald Moseley if the Germans had 'set foot' in England, because of the danger that Moseley would lead a quisling government.

However, Orwell thought that Moseley should have been released when he was, in 1944, long after the danger had passed.

The article also ignores the extent to which "1984" was a satire of English intellectual life from roughly 1942-48, instead of being a simple "prediction", and also ignores the fact that the world is obviously _not_ moving towards the world Orwell described.

Instead, democratic revolutions are shaking the priest-rulers and fascists all over the place. Optimistic times

David Jackmanson
http://www.letstakeover.blogspot.com

What is the pseudo-left?
http://www.lastsuperpower.net/disc/members/568578247191

Well thank Christ America is on our side. I'd hate it to be an enemy...

Pete

America ain't on anyone's side Plantagenet but their own.