Perspective on Prisoner Treatment

Some people want to pretend that the handful of abuses, including having to suffer through eating the same Meals Ready to Eat (MRE) that we soldiers have the opportunity to enjoy, in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are somehow on the scale of Saddam's rape rooms - and that, somehow, these abuses were ordered from on-high.

This, while they ignore the fact that - if these abuses were ordered from on high, we would have a 99-plus percent majority of service members disregarding those imaginary orders.

People who "think" like this clearly have no concept of the Chain of Command.

For their perspective, and yours, I offer this AFP story from Jakarta -

Pakistani sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking
14 June 2005

JAKARTA - An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced a Pakistani to death
for drug trafficking, the latest in a series of death sentences against
foreigners.

Judges at a district court in Tangerang, southwest of Jakarta, ruled
that Zulfikar Ali was guilty of trafficking 300 grams (10.5 ounces) of
heroin.

Ali was arrested along with his Indonesian girlfriend last
August.

Indonesian courts have passed death sentences on at least 32 people,
mostly foreigners, for drug offences since the year 2000. None of those death
sentences have been carried out so far.
Two Thai nationals and an Indian
convicted for drug trafficking in 1994 were executed by firing squads last
year.

Indonesia has pledged to get tough on a growing drug abuse
problem.

Last month a court in the resort island of Bali jailed an Australian
woman for 20 years for smuggling 4.1 kilograms (nine pounds) of marijuana.

The conviction triggered an uproar in Australia, where many believe she
is innocent.

I don't suppose Amnesty International has time for this one... not that I think death, or at least banishment to Boston for drug smugglers is such a bad idea.