[Sosfbay-discuss] NY Times OpEd on a Nuremberg for Guantanamo

[Wes Rolley]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/opinion/20mettraux.html

> AT the end of World War II, the Allied powers found themselves in 
> charge of thousands of captured enemies, many of whom had committed 
> unspeakable crimes. Some among the victors thought that the prisoners 
> should simply be shot. Others, including many in the American 
> government, steadfastly insisted that these men should be subjected to 
> criminal proceedings. Thus the Nuremberg trials were born, tribunals 
> that meted out justice for some of the 20th century’s worst atrocities 
> while demonstrating the return of the rule of law on the European 
> continent and the superiority of democratic values over Fascist lunacies.
>
> The Guantánamo detainees pose a similar conundrum today. Trying these 
> men stateside would necessarily require the compromise of 
> long-cherished principles of American law. 
Read the rest at the link above.

Better yet, get an opinion from Johnny Yoo.

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