Recently in International Category

On Monday, China decided the USNS Impeccable was inappropriately "surveying" their people and China set about to set in place a blockade -- an incarceration at sea -- to prevent the United States from their alleged unlawful action. 

George W. Bush finally said farewell last night and one of his gloats was his pronouncement that "Afghanistan has gone from a nation where the Taliban harbored al-Qaida and stoned women in the streets to a young democracy that is fighting terror and encouraging girls to go to school."  It seems Bush missed the NYTimes report the day before about young women in Afghanistan who had acid thrown in their faces because they dared to attend school.

When a gun is held up in contempt for the rule of law, the result is everyone in the reach of the bullet is incarcerated.  Bullets instead of minds set international policy:

Will it take the threat of Russian President Medvedev and Fidel Castro intervening at Guantanamo Bay to end the monstrosity of wrongful imprisonment?