...Under (click at title to entry - thank you) international law _ which the US was very instrumental in helping to frame _ all human beings, regardless of their citizenship, are entitled to basic liberties and the due process of law. At the heart of the Guantanamo issue is the question of whether the fight against terror justifies or even requires the suspension of these accepted international standards....
...The biggest drawback to the establishment of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre is that in the end it has probably created many more enemies for the US and its allies than it ever took off the ''battlefields'' of the war on terror, and this is an issue that affects the entire world.
America's standing in the world has been severely damaged in the last 10 years not because of the attacks on the World Trade Center, but by the way it chose to react to the attacks, and in many ways this has left a moral void around the globe. The concept of inalienable human rights and justice for all was explicitly and eloquently written into the US constitution and has served as a model for other democracies around the world....
