So just to be clear -- I am right, and this law is a "fuck you" to the citizens of every other nation on the entire Earth?
I'm looking for help here to make a concrete, real-world decision. The election could be triggered literally any day now. I can support a party that will continue supplying about 20% of all front-line combat troops in Afghanistan, in an alliance with the USA, or I can support a party that will withdraw all military involvement in Afghanistan as soon as possible.
Who will win is completely up in the air.
Am I right in thinking that it is the position of the US executive, and now US Senate, that at the whim of the US president any person in the entire world can be kidnapped, moved to a secret location, held in secret, interrogated using whatever techniques the US president chooses, have no ability to contest their incarceration for 5+ years, and this is all perfectly OK, legal, official, up-and-up, every-day, hum-drum acts, as far as the USA is concerned?
Because, that isn't the kind of thing I want to be in alliance with.
So, someone please, tell me where my error is.
Does the USA find kidnapping people, detaining them for 5+ years without any kind of real judicial review, "interrogating" them using techniques that are banned under the Geneva convention (chosen in secret), as acceptable, so long as the person in question does not hold a US citizenship? Is that the official position of your government?
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Last edited by JHVH : 10-29-4004 BC at 09:00 PM. Reason: Time for a rest.
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