Don't know what to make of this whole controversary of the treatment of the Taliban prisoners. I just hear there's a controversary but don't hear much in the way of exactly what we're doing wrong. From what I hear, it doesn't sound like we're setting them up in a bunch of Motel 6's and there stay in Cuba isn't exactly like "Temptation Island," but, you know, they are a bunch of people who've sworn their lives to killing Americans. Plus, they were all living in caves, barely eating anything and now at least they're probably eating better.

But as usual, it's not exactly what we're doing it's the reactions of other countries that gets me. Like the British. They do have a point in that we're treating our Taliban guy differently than their Taliban guy and hopefully, that'll get taken care of. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure the British weren't exactly dainty and humanitarians when it came to the Northern Irish. And today I read that the leader of Malaysia issued a formal protest. Malaysia is a borderline democracy whose leader had his political rival arrested and imprisoned on trumped up charges of "sodomy" (ie homosexuality). In other words, the Malaysian Prime Minister can go fuck off.

I think that's why being in politics would be so hard, because you can't say stuff like that, even though they're all probably saying it in private. Wouldn't it be great, though, if someone official did say something like when asked about the Malaysian protest?