Analysis: U.S. Facing Credibility Issues

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051211/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_s_gulag

WASHINGTON - Secret prisons in Eastern Europe. Illegal detentions. Suspects snatched off the streets and shipped without extradition to other countries for harsh interrogation. Government directives cloaked in secrecy.

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To hear some European critics of the Bush administration tell it, this all describes current practices of the world's most powerful and open democracy — the United States.

Dismay over Washington's covert intelligence practices and the seizures of suspected terrorists has swept Europe. It has challenged the administration's credibility and tarnished the nation's status as the premier defender of human rights.

The treatment of captured militants also has set off a fierce debate in Congress.

"You don't want serious people to believe that the American government does things that decent people don't do," said Michael Mandelbaum, professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

"I don't know if it's true or not, but obviously the suspicions are out there," said Mandelbaum, author of the forthcoming book, "The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the 21st Century."

[NMDemDist2]

1. duh!

ya think?

:eyes:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. Took a real rocket scientist to come up with that topic, didn't it?

[Vincardog]

3. Well do you believe the Homo erotic psychopaths do this shit?

I do watch aWoL's eyes light up whenever he talks about death.
I can not Waiit for us to rid our country of these EVIL BASTARDS

[Canuckistanian]

4. Ya think?

Tom Raum, what a visionary for our times...

[fshrink]

5. We are 5 years past that point.

And the crisis, the real crisis, the deep domestic crisis, is still not on the radar screen. This not about the shakespearian buffoon any longer.

[NVMojo]

6. true story, our credibility started flying out the window about that long

ago