After 5008 days in Guantánamo Bay,Aamer shows no enrage. But what clinched it for me was how he spoke approximately his children, nature and animalsCan we really make even a tentative character assessment of someone we don’t know by watching them on the easily manipulated medium of television? I pondered this one again yesterday when checking out Shaker Aamer, or Britain’s recently released last detainee held by the Americans in Guantánamo Bay. The record of that still-open facility remains a major blot on the largely triumphant contemporary history of the US. A shameful episode,it will always be there to remind Americans – much as the Donald Trump saga does now – just how much they lost their nerve and moral compass after the 9/11 attacks, launched by a mere handful of medieval obscurants from the deserts of Arabia.
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Source: theguardian.com