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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
McCarthyism is no footnote.
The terrorist imprisonment issue will be a footnote in a text college kids will buy and never open. It'll be discussed by people who think Joan Baez would've made a great senator.
Understand this - Americans are nothing if not utterly self-absrobed and completely self-righteous. You think anyone other than a few crazy liberals give a flying shit what happens to prisoners at Guatanamo Bay? NPR won't even talk about it in a few years.
The story has no legs. The Times doesn't even give it any ink anymore.
No. One. Cares. And no one ever will.
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FWIW, I think you undersell the long-term ramifications this will have on our foreign policy.
As for this story being out of the news, there was an article about the Guantanamo prisoners in yesterday's Washington Post.
Link Here
