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Maybe the detainees at Gitmo aren't entitled to Constitutional Rights because they aren't citizens of the U.S. and aren't technically in the U.S.. And maybe they aren't entitled to the same rights as POWs because terrorists (our call) aren't entitled to rights set out in international conventions. But, they are human beings and ought to be entitled to receive some basic "human rights".
After all, we are the U.S. and, although we didn't invent the concept of human rights, we have been the most ardent promoters of the idea that all people are entitled to receive certain basic humane treatment, including some level of elemental justice.
Forgetting for the moment whether they deserve to be imprisoned, are the detainees being treated with what we as Americans would generally consider to be consistent with receiving their basic human rights? How we treat these guys informs the world who we are.
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