State Department Human Rights report and Congressional Review

Here is an interesting article from National Review Online Nina Shea on Human Rights on National Review Online

Here’s a quote: "This annual exercise — the State Department’s issuance of the "Country Reports," and the congressional hearings that review them — is uniquely American. No other nation produces anything comparable."

Ahhh, you say! Isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black? What about our human rights abuses? Good point. Here’s an article from yesterday’s Washington Post Military Lawyers Say Tactics Broke Rules in which all sorts of military lawyers are critical of over the top Guantanamo interrogation techniques.

Here’s a quote: "the lawyers wrote that forcing a detainee to wear a woman’s bra and thong underwear on his head, insulting a detainee’s mother and sister, calling a detainee a homosexual and implying that others know he is a homosexual, forcing a detainee to perform dog tricks, and forcing a detainee to stand naked in the presence of female soldiers would not be consistent with the Army’s policy."

Now this is degrading, stupid, inhumane, and shouldn’t be tolerated. I’m glad it was dug up by internal investigations. The perpetrators should be punished. But it’s not torture. The Falun Gong religious sect in China would find this preferable to psychotropic drugs and electroshock.