Guantanamo Bay

This just in from the BBC:

"The adverse reaction to a claim by a senior US official that the suicides of three Guantanamo Bay detainees was a "good PR move" adds to the growing international pressure for the camp to be closed."

Describing the suicides of the Afghan prisoners as a "good PR move" was a really dumb and insensitive thing for our general to say -- in a string of a lot of bad moves. Our practices at Gitmo (Guantanamo Bay), and utterances by our leaders are really giving the mantel of liberty that we uphold a black eye around the world. DARN THOSE EUROPEAN BLEEDING HEART LIBERALS WHO CAN'T SEE THE MOTE IN THEIR OWN EYE. It's inflaming the Arab world as well.

Holding the prisoners until the end of the terrorist war isn't worth the tarnishing our own values are taking and that we are receiving among our world friends. Our own press didn't pick this up but the BBC knew the quote would be popular among its readership.