My God, We're Making Them Depressed!
Check out this bit from an AP story about conditions at Guantanamo Bay in the aftermath of three recent suicides there:

Three British youths formerly detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay and now the subjects of a new film about their experiences say they were driven to desperation knowing others had tried to kill themselves at the camp.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Shafiq Rasul and his two friends — Ruhal Ahmed and Asif Iqbal — describe how they were held at Guantanamo for more than two years without charge. Many of the some 460 detainees accused of links to Afghanistan's Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terror network have been held for more than four years without charge.

"There is no hope in Guantanamo. The only thing that goes through your mind day after day is how to get justice or how to kill yourself," Rasul, 29, who waged a hunger strike at the camp to protest alleged beatings, said Saturday. "It is the despair — not the thought of martyrdom — that consumes you there."

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the idea of giving jihadis "no hope" and feelings of "desperation" the whole point of this global war on terror? What's next? The Taliban on Oprah. Osama bin Laden on Dr. Phil? Dr. Phil, please help me. My henchmen are dead and my terror network is in trouble. I really feel sad.

If all of these guys die hopeless, venal deaths, it is not even close to the attrocities they perpetrated on their own people.
- posted by Base10 @ 11:50 AM