[Amnesty International secretary general Irene] Khan labeled the United States detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where more than 500 prisoners from about 40 countries are being held, as "the gulag of our times."
Honest to God, those people at AI have the brain power of mossy rocks. When there are entire nations with UN seats that qualify as gulags and widespread abuses in most countries, Amnesty International sees America as an offender uniquely guilty. Never mind Cuba or Burma or North Korea or Belorussia or Zimbabwe or Iran or China. Those countries might send hit squads against Ms. Khan if she showed the same outrage at them. But there is no downside to accusing America of the most outrageous crimes. My how brave of them. They'll get invited to all the right parties now.
What is really frustrating is that we aren't perfect. I don't like our practice of rendering prisoners to actual countries with gulags [NOTE: I should have said "human rights abuses" instead of "gulags" here. None of our allies have anything near a system of gulags.] where we know they will be tortured. That is wrong, but by calling America a human rights abuser and Gitmo a "gulag" the Amnesty people just show that they are just an arm of the anti-US coalition of the world. They could gain actual support by making reasoned and focused accusations about specific failings but instead AI goes overboard and undermines their credibility.
We should turn over the AI people to our Gitmo residents and tell them they are welcome to each other. Surely Irene would walk into their custody serenely confident that she wouldn't be mistreated by the saints she defends.
Screw Amnesty International. If we lose our war with Islamofascists, AI wouldn't last two seconds under our enemy's rule. God, they make me sick.
