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to the extent that it represents a wholesale break with the policy void that was the bush administration, yes.
the pragmatic questions are simply the pragmatic questions---it is better tha obama takes the united states off a footing in which it sees itself as outside all law because it posited an imaginary threat to it's existence. what happens to be folk who remain in gitmo should be done to complete to job of bringing the united states back into the domain of international law, conventions concerning the treatment of detainees, and of requirements of due process.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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