Europeans comment on U.S. gulags

[spindrifter]

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/worldopinionroundup/

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What rankled most commentators is the possibility that European governments have been made complicit in the U.S. policy of secret detention and interrogation unbound by international law, especially East European democracies that only threw off communism 16 years ago.

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Hungarians "were already aware of the fact that the United States was keeping people captive in secret locations without charging them, without judicial control or time limits," said Gabor Horvath, writing in Nepszabadsag (in Hungarian), a Budapest daily. "The new information is that, with the President's knowledge, the CIA has kept this secret even from US legislators and that it has also involved East European democracies in this."

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In France, Le Monde asked "has the United States, which has defended human rights and the moral values of democracy throughout the world for such a long time, come to ask European countries, NATO members and protagonists in the European Union, to do ‘the dirty work’ on exported jihadist detainees? . . . Such an attitude toward the Old Continent would be one of utter arrogance and even contempt."

The Bush administration's “eloquent refusal to comment," wrote Artur Blinov in the Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, makes it "increasingly obvious that these scandalous prisons do exist, and on the territory of the former Eastern bloc." ...snip

Not a pretty sight to read, eh?

[lostexpectation]

1. nah we're not so hot

each and every government knows exactly what happens on its soil. (or the range of possibilites).

This is more we have no knowledge of..shite.

[Neil Lisst]

2. Outside the US, there is great outrage about the prisons.

But inside the US, mainstream media have given the story short shrift.

We used the occasion in our comic to play International bloody Jeopardy.

[spindrifter]

3. Great cartoon! Sadly, there don't

seem to be enough Americans outraged by this and Guantanamo behavior yet.

[kansasblue]

4. ayeeeeeeeee... that cartoon hurts.

[melody]

5. Please, the EU knew everything the US was doing

Their monsters probably made a profit on it right alongside our monsters.

We really need to stop seeing the US and the EU as distinct. They may have border skirmishes and shouting matches, but they're in it together.