“Getting Off the Island”

Большая статья (англ.) в “Newsweek” о том, что “унаследовал” Обама вместе с тюрьмой в Гуантанамо от Буша-младшего и как это навредило самой Америке среди друзей и не только среди них.

Almost everyone now agrees that Guantánamo is not just doing serious damage to America’s international reputation; its continued existence has in all likelihood become a valuable propaganda tool to Islamic fundamentalists. Put in starker terms, a detention facility that was in­tended to help protect America from another terrorist attack may well be increasing the possibility of one.

In a sense, Bush not only created the Guantánamo mess; he left the toughest work for Obama. About 60 of the 240 detainees remaining on the island have been cleared to leave, but many of them—citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia—have said they don’t want to be sent home because they are worried about being tortured. The U.S. has a legal and moral obligation to honor their requests. They remain on Guantánamo not because of who they are but because of where they are from.

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Статья — полностью.