Rethink 'war on terror' strategy, says former MI6 head

[sabra]

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1817930,00.html

Rethink 'war on terror' strategy, says former MI6 head

Former head of the Secret Intelligence Service tells Guardian Unlimited that CIA rendition flights and Guantánamo bay would be illegal under British law

Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, has criticised two current US policies in the "global war on terror" saying they would have been "illegal" under British law.

Sir Richard, formerly known in Whitehall as "C" and now master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, singled out CIA rendition flights and the indefinite detention of prisoners in Guantánamo for rebuke.

Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado before an audience of global politicians, experts and commentators last week, Sir Richard also said the west was "doomed" unless it "reclaimed the moral high ground".

[Javaman]

1. He is wrong in assuming that moron* actually gave any of this thougth. nt

[leesa]

2. How about "thinking" about the idiotic concept for the first time?

[Bush_MUST_Go]

3. bush only knows ONE thing: "Stay the course."

Actual thinking is hard work.

[dkos refugee]

5. and

it's tough

[Ghost Dog]

4. The west is "doomed" unless it reclaims the moral high ground:

Is that likely, at this stage of our degenerate decadence?

[librechik]

6. certain people still haven't gotten over the Crusades

so I think it might be a little unlikely, yes.