NY Times reports that three detainees have committed suicide at Guantánamo. This is not good for US relations worldwide, but part of the Bush administration's position is that these guys are bad dudes, nuts even.

Meanwhile, the situation inside the detention center has grown more volatile in recent months, with reports that prisoners have engaged in hunger strikes, suicide attempts and violent attacks on guards.

It's somewhat consistent that they would commit suicide, go on hunger strikes, etc. Prisoners often do things that are considered violent or extreme. There's no similar article from the NY Times on suicides in US penal facilities. Yet, those numbers are quite high no doubt. The problem of unwanted behavior is unrelated to the moral question as to whether or not the US should keep prisoners indefinitely, captured in military conflicts.

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