US Planning Big New Prison In Afghanistan

New York Times:

The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come.

The proposed detention center would replace the cavernous, makeshift American prison on the Bagram military base north of Kabul, which is now typically packed with about 630 prisoners, compared with the 270 held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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Comments

[Zentomato]

Jaysus Cripes we are now the planetary police?

[blytzd]

Been that way for years

[watchingthings]

Present day America only understands the 'you are with us" or "you are against us" policy [more fitting in Hitler's time]. This type of policy would naturally require much prison space. One cannot allow people to wander around loose when they don't carry the party slogan on their lips.

[Manx]

The new prison will have the latest high-tech, automatic water-boarding devices, no doubt, thanks to Dick Cheney and George W. Bush.

[LoRiseAntlers]

History will surely condemn all those who sought to appease George W.Bush,the wannabe didctator and accomplished war criminal.

[themodernleader]

The Iraqis see us as neo-colonalists. By such arrogant actions as prison building, we are confirming that perception. Both our national wealth and values-character are being buried in the sands of the heart of Islam.
The only dubious reclaiming virtue that can told from this experience is that we are not the first foolish, arrogant powerful nation to be humbled by such wanton foolishness and stupidity.

[gevan]

I propose the name "Green Zone" for the facility; unless they are going to sell the naming rights to some corporate sponsor.

[Paul]

Why not send the detainees to Las Vegas? Show them a good time and you are much more likel;y to get actionable intelligence.


Prisons, beatings, waterboarding, etc will only get you what you want to hear.

Doesn't anyone in the Pentagon watch those old war movies?

[forpeace]

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How much longer US plans to keep whom ever it does not like in Prisons?

No wonder people hate us.

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[forpeace]

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Why?

Short with space in GITMO?

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[Mercedes]

Will someone please remove the rocks in Bush's head? Maybe then he will realize that HE does NOT have the right to have prisons built all over the world for his so-called "terrorist" combatants.

History will put Bush's name on the list with: Hitler, Stalin AND Hussein--all evil crazies who killed innocents and tried to take what ever they could get their hands on, especially Power...

[watchingthings]

Bush will see his just place in history...­....his Library will be against it.....GWB will have two histories 1] his version in his own library and 2] the public version [which the Bush familly will vehemently deny] as the truth. Sadly, the Bush family will be proven as habitual liars eventually.