The problem with the US has been that it let these PR disasters happen by not being prompt about trial and then execution/hard labor.
Part of the problem is that Dubya was too restrained in his actions. There was good cause for many of the terrorists at Guantanamo to be put up on charges of war crimes, or even violations of martial law (lethally resisting duly constituted authority under conditions of martial law is a capital offense), convicted and executed. To show our fecklessness in this regard, consider that John Walker Lindh wasn't executed -- and he actually bore arms against his own country!
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Date: 2009-05-22 02:07 pm (UTC)Part of the problem is that Dubya was too restrained in his actions. There was good cause for many of the terrorists at Guantanamo to be put up on charges of war crimes, or even violations of martial law (lethally resisting duly constituted authority under conditions of martial law is a capital offense), convicted and executed. To show our fecklessness in this regard, consider that John Walker Lindh wasn't executed -- and he actually bore arms against his own country!