Height of Stupidity

I heard on the radio yesterday day we're holding about 18 Chinese Muslims in Guantanamo Bay as enemy combatants. We are more or less treating them like Al Queda. Which is probably one of the dumbest things one can imagine if one knows anything about Al Queda - a predominately Egyptian and Saudi organization without much tolerance or use for Chinese Muslims.

Apparently, we agreed with the Chinese to include this small sect of Chinese Muslims as part of the WOT because the Chinese thought they were a terror organization - even though they've never once even said a negative word about the United States. This group is fiercely anti-communist and pro-United States and yet to get the Chinese to assist the WOT, we agreed to count them as terrorists. (ps- how exactly is China gonna help us against Al Queda?)

In any case, we've held them now going on seven years. We won't send them to China because they'll face political persecution. You mean like being locked up without charges? In any case, this seems to me so colossally stupid I don't think I can put words to it.

Say what you will about the suspension of habeas corpus for enemy combatants - I can see both sides of this. But the torture of prisoners and locking up non-Al Queda members to appease the Chinese. Jesus. How dumb are these guys in government? How come people are quitting their jobs. Do we have a bunch of rubes working these gigs?