Ted Rall for October 15, 2012

Agree with GreggW- Change it to Radical Right and you have the Bush rationale for Afghanistan (after we beat the Taliban), Iraq and Guantanamo.

Compassion makes my stomach turn at the thought of a disabled person being kept from a needed tool. Realism makes my mind recognize the threat to guards and other prisoners a steel hook can be, not to mention how the non metal parts of it might be used to conceal things or even to be used as a club. Anger at the evil he and his allies have done to our nation….well…I’m just glad I’m not the one to make these decisions.I’m sorry the USA abandoned Afghanistan after helping the tribes there drive out the Soviets. We had a positive foothold there and walked away allowing the Taliban to come in and lay the foundation for the house Al Qayadah used to do their plotting against us.That doesn’t excuse him. A Soofi cleric from the 15th century is said to have written, Jihad cannot be fought against others. He was saying we cannot fight the evil in others and must address the spiritual war within ourselves. That conflict occurs when we wonder if the ends will justify the means, and words, we use.The God of Abraham is the God of Christians, Jews, and Muslims. This man’s life on earth will never know freedom and the only joy he’ll ever have is the bitter fruit harvested by his allies. Then, if my hypothesis is correct, he will face his judge. I think he will be surprised, and shamed.Before my atheist friends get offended, if my hypothesis is wrong, he’ll still have no freedom, no joy, no family, and will lie forgotten and lost in a lonely grave, but uncaring and at ‘peace’. I prefer to believe in a loving Creator who judges us by the simple question, “Did we love our neighbors as much as we loved ourselves.”.Respectfully,C..

Another ignorant liberal who never read the Geneva Conventions. Do so and understand why your statement makes no sense.

the framed yellow support-our-troops ribbon on the wall says so much. closed “trials” say so much. like Israel, we are becoming what we claim to despise.

“It was a bipartisan decision. The goal of seeing the Soviet Union endure in Afghanistan what we’d endured in Vietnam”Yeah, and screw all the innocent civilians that get caught in the middle. They don’t matter anyway.

I was 50 on 9/11. And I DO remember! But blind pursuit of goals, complete with the lies that were purposely given, and the demonizing of anyone who dared question the rationale, is why we’re still arguing about Afghanistan 11 years later. By the way, how about the Romney supporter with the “Put the White Back in the White House” T-shirt? Even more demonizing.

I was 61 on 9/11. What’s more, I was there — I worked in a neighboring building. I had been long wondering when the fondness of the American ruling class for meddling violently in other countries would have some blowback, so I wasn’t exactly surprised. What did surprise me was not the physical terrorism of the attack, as the way in which people, especially right-wingers, turned them and the site (‘Ground Zero’) into a major ongoing political circus to justify continuing the very activities which had provoked the terrorism in the first place. The circus continues today with this nasty little story and the nasty rightwing commentaries on it.

There aren’t any little schoolgirls within hookreach, so they should probably just give him his hooks back so he can continue to wipe his ass.

How in Dog’s name can the hooks be a threat to a guard? Are they powered by a tiny reactor (ala Tony Stark) giving the accused super strength? Probably not…the dude could probably to more damage with actual hands.

He gets his hooks part of the time, and will probably get replacement prosthetics – see: http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019425468_abuhamza14.html

Give him back his hooks…and make Rall sit next to him.

not yet, plastic hands are curently being made for him, but well, they take time

Steel hooks in prison? Why not just give him two knives.Boo-hoo for the terrorist. Give him something non-lethal to wipe himself.

Once you go black has been around for years. Just an adaptation of an old line. Considering the vitriol O has had since day one of his first candidacy, that one’s not surprising.