What is done at Gitmo is done to you

July 6th, 2005

A few months ago, I wrote a lengthy essay titled, “Understanding the Significance of Guantanamo: The Symbol of Omnipotent Power.” At the conclusion of that piece, I wrote:

These are among the fundamental issues that neither the Bush administration nor its many defenders will ever acknowledge or discuss, and which our major media will never trouble themselves to explain to you. But such determined avoidance does not diminish the reality of these policies, or of their implications—and it does nothing to diminish the ungraspably great danger we now face, a danger, I stress, not from any external enemy, but from our own leaders.