the vicious little green footballs calls amnesty international "the voice of the international appeasement left" because it condemns human rights abuses at guantanamo and in israel. the position can only be exactly this: torture an abuse are justified when we do it to you, but not when anyone else does it at all (and that is in fact precisely lgf's position, as frankly inconsistent and brutally stupid as any position can be). now trawl around ai's site a bit and note that they report on human rights abuses in 149 countries, that they are very strong on condemning china, saudi arabia, russia, syria, and so on. they aren't appeasing anyone; they are merely taking a self-evidently consistent position against abusing human beings and they are trying to do something about it. that lgf and others condemn them for this shows you who these people are and what they want to do. is the claim that there have ben no human rights abuses in american detention facilities? or in israeli prisons? obviously, not. so the contention can only be this: such abuses should not be criticized. now i ask you what happens when a state can torture and kill with impunity, answering to no legal standard and undergoing no scrutiny by any outside group. every day in lgf there's the whiff of genocide, justification for dehumanization and torture, and finally for execution.