Enjoy your stay!
(however brief …)
Terminaba así una saga que comenzó cuando
en enero de 2014 llegó totalmente en secreto a Montevideo, Clifford Sloan, un
abogado egresado de la Universidad de Harvard, a quien el presidente Barack
Obama nombró en 2013 para que se hiciera cargo de la difícil tarea de negociar
con países que estuvieran dispuestos a recibir a los cautivos. Y aún antes de
la llegada de Sloan, la buena relación entre el presidente José Mujica y el
vicepresidente estadounidense Joseph Biden había generado un buen ambiente para
que Uruguay hiciera el favor que Estados Unidos estaba pidiendo. …
-- http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/presos-guantanamo-llegaron-control-medico.html?utm_source=news-elpais&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Presos%20de%20Guant%C3%A1namo%20llegaron%20bien%20y%20est%C3%A1n%20bajo%20control%20m%C3%A9dico&utm_content=08122014&utm_campaign=Resumen%20Matutino\
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| ShadowMan kind of spooks me, actually |
Los recién llegados recibirán un
documento de identidad transitorio. Tienen algunas ofertas para trabajar en la
construcción y en tareas rurales.
Mujica ha asegurado que llegarán en condición de refugiados y por lo
tanto podrían irse de Uruguay al día siguiente de llegar si así lo quisieran.
El gobierno no aceptó el pedido de Estados Unidos de limitar la libertad de
movimiento de los liberados, dijo el mandatario.
One wonders whether, upon crossing the Rio Grande, they will
be asked to state their business, or simply waved on in the interests of
Diversity …
~
This evening’s NPR report on the matter typifies the level to which journalism
has sunk. It was all about
feelings and beliefs, not facts.
The station acknowledged that certain (unnamed) persons harbor
unspecified “concerns” (using the word one might employ, as regards the shaky
health of a pet hamster). But, by
way of countering what much of the audience -- not so dumb as they deem us --
was likely already thinking, the reporter hastened into the breach with an
extraordinary gambit: that she “believes”
(her term; not “has learned” or “knows”,
but using a term that can equally well be applied to the Great Pumpkin) that “recidivism”
among people jailed for terrorism has
been “actually less than for the general crime population”: which is like comparing apples to a
random medley of oranges, pinapples, and breadfruit. For certain infractions, the rate of re-offense is no
doubt far greater than for, say, assassination: in the case of jaywalking, probably close to a hundred
percent. (Once having tasted the
illicit sweetness of flouting that old Kantian maxim, “Cross at the green --
Not in between”, the perpetrator will jaywalk again and again.)
This is not a matter for beliefs, feelings, or hunches. It is a matter of public record
that a significant number of detainees released from Gitmo, or released/escaped
from detention in Afghanistan or Irak, have gone on to leadership positions in Al-Qaeda. Indeed, one of the best-known of
them appended the epithet al-Kûbi (“the
Cuban”) to his nom de guerre, in winking
reference to his proud status as an alumnus of that flagship campus of Jâmi`at Yûsuf (“Joseph’s University” --
i.e., ‘prison’; an allusion to the Torah story, retold in the Koran).
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