The recent news that Lloyd Austin wishes to annul a plea bargain between the man accused of being the architect of the 9/11 bombings and the U.S. authorities has thrown the spotlight on Guantanamo Bay – a colossus of U.S. hypocrisy with regards to human rights and how rarely America practices what it peaches around the world in terms of international law.

Guantanamo, a space in Cuba which the U.S. government leases from the government in Havana is considered not to be U.S. territory, and, we were told, was created to try terrorists. It was created by President Bush in 2001 and despite almost 800 prisoners passing through it, only 8 to date have been convicted.

Twelve years after the jihadists from Egypt, Pakistan, Algeria and even Morocco who fought for the Americans in Afghanistan were discovered to be causing more problems for the U.S. than what was expected, it is as though Bush created the base to contain the ‘wild ones’ which refused to stay on the U.S. payroll and take their orders in places like Iraq and Syria. Those governments of these countries tricked the west. They knew that when they emptied their prisons of their extremists to send them to Afghanistan, they would never be allowed to return to their own countries. America needed a legal system which skirted its own laws and those of the rest of the world which it had agreed to with various human rights treaties it signed. Guantanamo.

Guantanamo Bay shows how rarely America practices what it peaches around the world in terms of international law.

Martin Jay writes

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