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"Detention, if not done properly, can actually harm the effort. We are a learning organization ... we believe transparency is certainly going to help the effort, and increase the credibility of the whole process." (General Mark Martins, Commandant Bagram Detention Facility.)
The world in which our children will live is either to be built upon the spires that we build or the ashes that we leave behind; it is inescapable. Today we cage and detain, without any legal rights or representation, third world peasants. They are beaten and chained without charge and confined indefinitely, albeit in shiny new blue buildings. Do we, can we, honestly believe that those held unjustly are satiated by a flush toilet or fresh coat of paint?
There is only one thought that is important to remember: Anything we are willing to do to some third-world peasant to obtain information, we are just as willing to do to you. The cascading effect is clear all throughout history, be it hunting for witches or hunting for Al Qaeda. The concrete of ideas sets up and the extreme becomes the accepted. So what then makes your children so special, immune, or inviolate? What makes your husband or wife or daughter or son so special when they might very well be "Invisible enemies?"
What will exempt them? Who will protect them? Und Sie Kamerad? Stützen Sie die unsichtbaren Feinde? (And you, Comrade? Do you support the Invisible enemies?)
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