Extraordinary rendition - WWII Style

[kpete]

By the tens of thousands, German soldiers were loaded aboard Liberty Ships, which had carried American troops across the Atlantic. Eventually, some five hundred P.O.W. camps, scattered across forty-five of the forty-eight United States, housed some four hundred thousand men. In every one of those camps, the Geneva conventions were adhered to so scrupulously that, after the war, not a few of the inmates decided to stick around and become Americans themselves. That was extraordinary rendition, Greatest Generation style.

the rest:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/04/18/110418taco_talk_hertzberg
via:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/04/the-wwii-model.html