Bloodless Coup

An American Taking a Beating at Gitmo

"Baker said the MPs, who were told that he was an unruly detainee who had assaulted an American sergeant, inflicted a beating that resulted in a traumatic brain injury."

Before taking several swipes at House of Representatives Armed Services Chair Duncan Hunter, Larry Johnson succinctly relates why events like this one reported in the Los Angeles Times matter.

"The point of the outrage over abuses at Guantanamo is that we are a country based on morals and principles that require us to conduct ourselves in an honorable, proper fashion. If we lower ourselves to use the tactics and methods of terrorists we become the very thing we are fighting against. We cannot be content to argue that it only happened to a few. One act of deliberate abuse is one too many."