Something needs to be done

I am as patriotic as the next guy, many people would probably say even more patriotic, but that doesn't mean that the US always is right. Something that they do has been bugging me for a while. That is Guantanamo Bay. This is the base where the US has held all of the people that have been deemed terrorists.

The US government doesn't let people in to inspect it, they won't release details about it. We have had the UN say that it needs to be closed and called it a human rights scandal. Amnesty International has said. "Guantanamo has become the gulag of our times, entrenching the notion that people can be detained without any recourse to the law. If Guantanamo evokes images of Soviet repression, ghost detainees or the incommunicado detention of unregistered detainees - bring back the practice of disappearances so popular with Latin American dictators in the past. According to US official sources there could be over 100 ghost detainees held by the US."

At one point the Red Cross was allowed to inspect it and in their report they talked of torture measures being used against the prisoners. "The construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture."

We, as the US, need to be better than this. If we play by their rules, we lose the high ground.