Why Afghanistan (Updated With True Facts This Time)
Apparently, the Pentagon plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan.
Finally - plausibility.
By the way, here's an interesting factoid I picked up: the United States executes almost as many prisoners as does China. Per capita, you nod? Stop nodding. There was a brief moratorium last year (in the U.S. - not China - China's getting ready for the Olympics) while the humaneness of lethal injection was debated. Otherwise, China gets the gold, the U.S. just missed out on the bronze (Saudi Arabia nailed it), while Iran gets the silver. To be fair, though, the U.S. may have just missed out on the bronze because it outlawed executing children in 2005.
But I wonder if it holds the most prisoners indefinitely and without charge or legal representation? Like, in big prisons built on foreign soil that Canadians are fighting to make safe for... such... western... ish... now...since... 9/11... stuff... good... freedom... fries...Harold... Kumar...
Ah, forget it.
