# Guantanamo, Holocaust parallels

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 28, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guantanamo-holocaust-parallels/247577 "2004-05-28T21:44:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guantanamo-holocaust-parallels/247577/41 "2004-06-03T01:51:01Z")

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> [@jsc1953](#):
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> You’re absolutely right. The Taliban was a barbaric regime, and the world is better off without them.
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> But the Geneva Conventions don’t differentiate between prisoners taken while fighting for Governments We Like, and those from Governments We Don’t Like. We used to be able to say that the standards set by the Geneva Conventions weren’t a hardship for us to meet as a country.

The Taliban is not gone, though. There are still Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.

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