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Article: An assault on our best instincts.(Editorials)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- January 21, 2005
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Three years ago this month, the United States began detaining foreign nationals at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. They were incarcerated, incommunicado, without charges, without trials, without access to counsel, without any of the due processes we take for granted as Americans.
One thousand days later, the nearly 600 alleged enemy combatants, mostly Afghani, remain in prison, shameful evidence that the most powerful country on earth, which currently occupies two countries in the name of establishing democracy and the rule of law, has turned its back on its own laws and those of the international community.
It is difficult to imagine what the United ...