BBC NEWS | Americas | Guantanamo suicides ‘acts of war’:
Rear Adm Harris said he did not believe the men had killed themselves out of despair.
“They are smart. They are creative, they are committed,” he said.
“They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.”
I wish I could link to the clip from Hearts and Minds [amazon | netflix](how many times have I referenced that movie?) where Gen Westmoreland is being interviewed and expresses how the Vietnamese place no value on human life, interspersed with footage of a Vietnamese mother’s anguish at her son’s military funeral, as she tries to jump into the grave.
Of course, fafblog has the best take on this:
Run for your lives – America is under attack! Just days ago three prisoners at Guantanamo Bay committed suicide in a savage assault on America’s freedom to not care about prisoner suicides! Oh sure, the “Blame Atrocities First” crowd will tell you these prisoners were “driven to despair,” that they “had no rights,” that they were “held and tortured without due process or judicial oversight in a nightmarish mockery of justice.” But what they won’t tell you is that they only committed suicide as part of a diabolical ruse to trick the world into thinking our secret torture camp is the kind of secret torture camp that drives its prisoners to commit suicide!