Middle East scholar Lawrence Davidson, in an article for Internet's " Media With a Conscience ," wrote: "The Commandant at Quantico has apparently seen fit to turn his brig into a stateside version of one of those infamous black hole detention facilities used by the CIA...in which the Bush gang conducted 'torture by proxy.' At Quantico we have decided to torture Bradley Manning ourselves."
Whether President Obama's Pentagon can destroy PFC Bradley Manning before his trial remains to be seen. In the process, though, it is surely degrading whatever humanitarian values America has left after a decade of wrong wars and the creation of a corollary global prison system infamous for its bizarre tortures.
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(Sherwood Ross directs the Anti-War News Service(AWNS). He formerly worked as a columnist for wire services and as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News.)
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