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Originally posted by smooth
Generally, unless our feelings regarding the prisoners are ambiguous (as our society has taught us to feel towards these detainees), U.S. citizens hold refusal to legal counsel and torture on the same moral plane--both are abhorrent.
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Er... maybe that's the feeling of many US citizens, but I'd say that torture would be quite a bit more painful.
Also, it's not an either/or situation: I'd say fundy Islamic legal systems don't have a lot of options for legal representation; you're typically caught, put on trial and sentenced in a *very* short period of time...