America spends millions of dollars bolstering public diplomacy and sponsoring chipper radio and television broadcasts to the Islamic world -- and then undoes it all with Guanta'namo. To stand against torture and arbitrary detention is not to be squeamish. It is to be civilized. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.