Yesterday Big Peace posted an article about a new book coming out this week, Richard Miniter's MASTERMIND: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. The book reveals a lot about the life of KSM and his various ideas and antics, but there was something in the book that troubles me.
The article quotes the author:
"I was stunned to learn while researching Mastermind that Guantanamo detainees succeeded in convincing prison officials to no longer raise the American flag anywhere they could see it. Each morning on every U.S. military base around the world, the American flag is raised to a bugle. But in the interests of not offending the detainees, it was stopped at Guantanamo."
Since we are dealing with a culture that worships strength and scoffs at weakness, I think this is a really dumb idea. I'm sorry if a detainee would be offended by the American flag, but that is not America's problem. I think the flag should be raised every two feet to remind the detainees where they are and who is in charge of them. The Muslim culture respects strength--when we act like weakings, we earn their scorn.
FLY THAT FLAG!
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