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Selling Guantanamo - Exploding the Propaganda Surrounding America's Most Notorious Military Prison (Hardcover)
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Selling Guantanamo - Exploding the Propaganda Surrounding America's Most Notorious Military Prison (Hardcover)
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In the aftermath of 9/11, few questioned the political narrative
provided by the White House about Guantanamo and the steady stream
of prisoners delivered there from half a world away. The Bush
administration gave various rationales for the detention of the
prisoners captured in the War on Terror: they represented
extraordinary threats to the American people, possessed valuable
enemy intelligence, and were awaiting prosecution for terrorism or
war crimes. Both explicitly and implicitly, journalists, pundits,
lawyers, academics, and even released prisoners who authored books
about the island prison endorsed elements of the official
narrative. In Selling Guantanamo, John Hickman exposes the holes in
this manufactured story. He shines a spotlight on the critical
actors, including Rumsfeld, Cheney, and President Bush himself, and
examines how the facts belie the "official" accounts. He chastises
the apologists and the critics of the administration, arguing that
both failed to see the forest for the trees. By looking at
historical examples of prisoners held in continued custody during
asymmetric conflicts and national security crises - including
different tribes of Native Americans held at Fort Pickens and in
St. Augustine, British Fascists imprisoned on the Isle of Man, and
Haitian "boat people" detained at Guantanamo - Hickman unravels the
putative from the proven and reveals exactly why the current
internment of prisoners at the infamous naval base is so
unprecedented and unique. Constructing his argument from the
existing domestic and international record, he offers an alternate
theory that completely contradicts the narrative spun by the Bush
administration: the prisoners were put on display as symbols of
military victory, punished as substitutes for the architects of
9/11 who remained at large, and used as pawns in a neoconservative
move to signal a new U.S. foreign policy that ignored the United
Nations, disregarded the Geneva Conventions, and scoffed at the
International Criminal Court.
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