You have a point in that torture happens elsewhere, too.
But there is still the difference between torturing people in your prisons for things they allegedly did in your country, with charges and sometimes (rarely though) a trial even -- and just kidnapping them from all over the world, and then treating them so badly that just this bad treatment is argument enough for some people to accept that Guantanamo needs to stay open.
^ You're not going to tell me that's just because the fashion sense that developed in Guantanamo is quirky that way? That this doesn't make your stomach turn?
> The problem with Guantanamo isn't the conditions. Its the legal limbo the prisoners are caught in.
Why can't it both be a problem? If Guantamo was a luxury hotel, we would envy the legal limbo. This is like saying something isn't torture, because "the" torture is happening elsewhere.
But there is still the difference between torturing people in your prisons for things they allegedly did in your country, with charges and sometimes (rarely though) a trial even -- and just kidnapping them from all over the world, and then treating them so badly that just this bad treatment is argument enough for some people to accept that Guantanamo needs to stay open.
Also:
http://www.google.de/search?q=guantanamo+detainees&tbm=isch vs. http://www.google.de/search?q=prison+inmates&tbm=isch
http://www.loonwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/prisoner...
^ You're not going to tell me that's just because the fashion sense that developed in Guantanamo is quirky that way? That this doesn't make your stomach turn?
> The problem with Guantanamo isn't the conditions. Its the legal limbo the prisoners are caught in.
Why can't it both be a problem? If Guantamo was a luxury hotel, we would envy the legal limbo. This is like saying something isn't torture, because "the" torture is happening elsewhere.