Comment 35814

By madmatt (anonymous) | Posted November 27, 2009 at 12:38:21

I must say I have conflicting views on this situation. I do not support the use of torture or other "coercive" means of "extracting information". It does not serve the course of justice at all. Having said that, Afghanistan is a sovereign nation and has the right to run it's own justice system. We have no right to detain suspects/prisoners in our own facilities on their soil or to remove said persons to a facility outside Afghanistan, as another nation we all know seems to think it can. NATO needs more oversight of the prisoner situation and have more training resources available to the Afghan police and justice system. We can not compare a country like Afghanistan to a western style democracy( although we know we have enough issues here to point fingers at them). As long as we remain in THEIR country we have to play by THEIR rules.

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