Re: UK sailors captured at gunpoint
Here is the link. If you actually think that there is no prisoner abuse that goes in the Middle East then you have very little understanding of the world.
http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/2md-summary-eng
No its mostly because its the first time that USA has done something like this. And since most of the Arab/Islamic world beleives that USA is controlled by the Jews, they just thought its a new way to lash at Jews and Israel by hitting USA hard on Guantanamo.
I dont know about that.
Look at the treatment of Algerians and Vietnamese by the French during the 1950’s, the torture of Arab Islamists by Egypt and other Arab countries or the Al-Hama massacare by Syria in 1982 where they wiped out 20,000 people.
Or the way Pakistan massacred thousands of Bengalis in 1971, or the way Khymer Rouge killed 1/3 of the entire Cambodia’s population in the 1970’s, or the way Soviet Union brutally crushed uprisings in Hungary in 1956 or Czech Republic in 1968, killing thousands and sending thousands more to Gulags in Siberia where they perished.
Or the massacres in Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990’s. Or the civil wars in Central America in the 1980’s.
So I can go on and on and on…So get a reality check.
Well thats a dangerous mix. Sending 19 year old soldiers to fight an unknown enemy half the world away. But kudos to USA for they investigated and punished the guilty troops. Where as Lebanon has yet to punish the Christian Phalgist who massacred 2,000 Palestinians at Shabra and Shatilla Refugee Camps in September 1982. Their Leader Michael Aoun is living in a mansion in Beirut where the rest of the Arab world is obsessed with Sharon whose only support for this operation was he was foolish enough to trust that the Christian Militia will act in an organized way.
I believe Iran acted very foolishly and again demonstrated how such an irrational regime cannot be trusted with Nuclear Weapons.