WaPo discloses CIA secret terror prisons around the world.
The abuses at Abu Ghraib will almost surely be repeated with even less light cast on these "institutions". It's becoming harder and harder to tell who "the good guys" are. It is completely allowed for the US to grab a citizen of any nation anywhere (including their own people on their own soil), "render" them off for torture at either their own secret prisons or some brutal dictatorship. Are these people going to just disappear now?
Some of the greatest wars of the past were partially fought to regain freedom from these abuses. I'm thinking particularly of the French and Russian history and WWII. And we are rightfully disturbed by how prisoners of war were treated in previous conflicts like WWII and the vietnam war - think the Deer Hunter. The torturers and captors have always been the "villains".
Now how is somebody to tell the difference between the captors then and now?
I guess these days people don't mind buying their safety by sacrificing somebody else's freedom, but that short-term thinking just escalates the conflict.
The US needs to regain the moral high-ground and become a beacon, not sink to the level of it's past enemies.
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