Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

14,000 ARABS IN LIMBO
In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law. Defenders of the system say it's an unfortunate necessity in the battles to pacify Iraq and Afghanistan, and to keep suspected terrorists out of action. But many say that the detention system often is unjust and hurts the war on terror by inflaming anti-Americanism in Iraq and elsewhere.
(AP, unearthed by Common Dreams)