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10 May 2008 02:52 pm
Torture Leaves A Mark
Phillip Carter reacts to news that Jay Hood won't be named U.S. military attache to Pakistan because of his ties to Guantanamo Bay:
The cancellation of Hood's appointment shows a promising new willingness among senior administration officials to listen to world opinion. It would have been incredibly tone-deaf of us to send an officer with Hood's assignment history to Pakistan -- probably about as smart as using an officer like Lt. Gen. William Boykin, a man with a history of worrisome public comments about Christianity and the war on terrorism, to engage with Arab and Israeli officials. The military attache position in Islamabad deserves a soldier-diplomat par excellence, and unfortunately, that's not Jay Hood.
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