Gitmo? Need Mo'

Funny how the people who have actually been to Gitmo have a rather different view of it than those who would love to live in the rest of Cuba proper:

As long as institutions are created and staffed by human beings, rather than gods, they will be imperfect. At best. What distinguishes the good institutions from the bad is not whether they make mistakes, but how they handle mistakes when they occur.

Recently I visited our military’s much-maligned detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I found the prisoners there were treated humanely and justly, living in conditions that meet — indeed, far exceed — Geneva Convention standards for prisoner treatment.

It’s not prudent to speculate on the motives behind the histrionic criticisms of Gitmo recently launched by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. But if these institutions truly wish to advance human rights, they would do far better to focus on the Defense Department’s response to prisoner-abuse scandals — and hold it up as a model for security forces around the world.