The USA continues to be the most interesting country in the world at this point in time what with the inauguration of an intelligent, articulate president (who happens to be black) and now the closure of the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention camp:
President Obama took dramatic steps yesterday to reverse Bush administration policies on the detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists, ordering the closure of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and banning the use of controversial CIA interrogation techniques.
- Obama Reverses Bush Policies On Detention and Interrogation, The Washington Post, Jan 23, 2009
If you think Guantanamo Bay came to the forefront on American national conscience after 9/11, you are mistaken.
A 1992 Hollywood movie - A Few Good Men - put the spotlight on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, for all the wrong reasons and presaged what was to come post 9/11.
Watch Jack Nicholson defend misuse of authority, power and patriotism in a powerful and ambiguous monologue:
It is very easy to imagine Barack Obama and Donald Rumsfeld taking away completely different messages from this monologue!
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