U.S. Has Detained 2,500 Juveniles as Enemy Combatants
15th May 2008
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“Juveniles and former child soldiers should be treated first and foremost as candidates for rehabilitation and reintegration into society, not subjected to further victimization,” Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU’s human rights program, said in a statement.
This appeared in the same issue of the paper that described terrorists strapping explosives to an 8-year-old child in order to bomb somebody they didn’t like.
A rational person would see this situation as evidence that the bad guys are wickedly using children in their plots. The ACLU sees it as Just Another Excuse to Bash America. That tells you all you really need to know about the ACLU. (Question: Why is the ACLU involved in this at all? And what is somebody named “Jamil Dakwar” doing as a director of the ACLU’s “human rights program”?)