This morning on the front page of The New York Times (yes, I still read a paper newspaper), I read with great sadness the headline "An Appeals Panel Denies Detainees U.S. Court Access - A Victory for Obama". Here is the article. The first paragraph reads:
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that three men who had been detained by the United States military for years without trial in Afghanistan had no recourse to American courts. The decision was a broad victory for the Obama administration in its efforts to hold terrorism suspects overseas for indefinite periods without judicial oversight.I do not know if the Appeals Court made the correct legal decision, but the Obama administration clearly is making the wrong decision. How can a country that supposedly believes in human rights take the position that it can hold people indefinitely without any ability to challenge their confinement?
President Obama is once again continuing a policy of President George W. Bush that he should have put a stop to as soon as he became President. To take the position that there is a substantive difference between detaining people indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay and detaining people indefinitely at Bagram Air Base is absurd. Please contact President Obama (here) and let him know you disagree with this terrible policy.
Thanks for reading and please comment,
The Unabashed Liberal
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