Listening, as I often do, to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning I caught an interview with the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. Mr Straw is known for choosing his words very carefully and is respected across all parties for this. Thus when I hear him state, and I quote: ". . . The United States has no intention of maintaining a Gulag at Guantanamo Bay . . ." I know he has chosen his words carefully. Note the word maintaining. Not starting. Not instituting. MAINTAINING. That infers that the Gulag is already in place. The United Nations is the latest organisation to join in the protestations against the inhumane and illegal prison camp. How much more does America need to be told? International Laws are flouted. If America is at war against terrorism then those purported terrorists incarcerated in Guantanamo should be given their rights under the Geneva Convention. If they are not prisoners of war then they must be tried in the proper way in front of judge and jury. If neither of these things happens America leaves itself open to criticism from every angle. Do they only accept the parts of International Law which suit them? Is the Geneva Convention just a worthless scrap of paper because it doesn't suit the present US regime to follow it?
If the US is putting itself above the law will it just bulldoze itself into a position of world domination? Hitler tried that - he ended up committing suicide in a bunker.
How long before the cry "Hail to the Chief" is supplanted by "Seig Hiel!"
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