{"id":440,"date":"2004-06-04T11:35:01","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T15:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2004\/06\/04\/do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do\/"},"modified":"2004-06-04T11:35:01","modified_gmt":"2004-06-04T15:35:01","slug":"do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2004\/06\/04\/do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Do as we say&#8230; not as we do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a103'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not one to generally trust &#8220;Le Monde&#8221; because of what I consider to be truly excessive bias. That said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/web\/dh\/0,14-0@14-0@2-3208,39-23040962,0.html\">some articles<\/a> are worth mentioning.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the US is about to transfer 4 French nationals from Guantanamo to French authorities. This makes sense. One wonders how Americans would feel if the French kept an American citizen captive for 2 years before releasing him back to US authorities, but let&#8217;s not harp on it: the right thing is being done here.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the kicker: the US is specifically requesting that the French treat these prisoners &#8220;humanely.&#8221; It&#8217;s simply amazing how hypocritical our administration is willing to be. Mere days after the prison abuse scandal breaks, and after 2 years of unsupervised, legally shady Guantanamo detention and questioning, we&#8217;re trying to teach others about humane treatment of prisoners?<\/p>\n<p>The French would say &#8220;Ils ont des couilles en beton!&#8221; (literal translation: &#8220;they have balls of concrete&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one to generally trust &#8220;Le Monde&#8221; because of what I consider to be truly excessive bias. That said, some articles are worth mentioning. It seems the US is about to transfer 4 French nationals from Guantanamo to French authorities. This makes sense. One wonders how Americans would feel if the French kept an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}