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Donald Trump has signed an executive order to keep the Guantánamo Bay prison camp open, reversing the policy of the Obama administration.
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Trump said he had directed the defence secretary, James Mattis, "to re-examine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay". He added that he expected that "in many cases" captured terrorists would be sent to the camp.
The Trump executive order instructs Mattis, in consultation with the secretary of state and other officials, to deliver a new policy on battlefield detentions, "including policies governing transfer of individuals to US Naval Station Guantánamo Bay" within 90 days.
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Donald Trump Signs Executive Order to Keep Guantánamo Bay Open
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Everything you know is wrong!
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday February 02 2018, @10:29AM
So much fail.
1 - Yes, genocide does seem to be a human instinct, under certain conditions. Yes, it is almost certainly an evolutionary thing that has been selected for over millions of years of tribal competition. but NO, that does not make it necessary, or desirable, or even acceptable today. Put it this way: Chances are, you carry genes of a rapist somewhere in your DNA. Somewhen back in the distant or not so distant past there's a very good chance that some ancestor of yours sired some other ancestor by raping a woman. It happened a lot in the past, and the awful truth is, you wouldn't exist without that act. Does that make rape OK? Would you support the rape of your mother or daughter just because "hey, it's burned into our DNA"? No, of course not. We strive to be better than our biological impulses.
Interestingly enough, research shows that people find it easier to rise above their worst instincts when they have secure and comfortable lives. So you know what is more likely to turn somebody into a genocidal tool? Invading their country, branding them a terrorist, discriminating against them, abducting and torturing them etc etc etc.
What's your excuse?
2.
This is a lie. Put down the Breitbart / Stormfront. There are orders of magnitude more peace-loving Muslims out there than infidel-killing dicks, and I suspect you know that. You just choose to ignore it because simply branding them all "unworthy of life" requires less brainpower.