America’s fresh PR disaster
Posted by natecrew on June 13, 2008
“The nation will live to regret what the court has done today.”
That’s U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia, talking about today’s decision giving detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp full rights to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts.
Around the world and even in America’s most conservative states, everyone loves to hate our current president. Yet even as global optimism grows for America’s post-Bush era, could this parting shot be a death knell for the nation’s international image?
I fear it could. In the “War on Terror,” each misstep seems to call down the wrath of all humanity on our government. Just imagine what a military operation like Guantanamo will look like when exposed to the blinding light of hundreds of public civilian court cases. I shudder to think of it.
