Americans Used to Get Outraged...
...when prisoners or hostages were used for propaganda, trotted out for the cameras by ISIS, the Viet Cong, the North Vietnamese, by Iran.
Rightly so. Such photo-ops are contemptible.
Until the Trump administration when U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem had prisoners assembled behind her at the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, their heads shaved, shirtless, crammed into a cell.
One of the standards dictated by the Geneva Conventions is this: Prisoners may not be publicly exploited for purposes of propaganda.
Yet here we are.
We are now the bad guys.
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