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Depending on how you define "detained under post 9/11 foreign policy", it could include people the US imprisoned in countries where there were wars like Iraq an
by Ozzie_osman 4y ago
Depending on how you define "detained under post 9/11 foreign policy", it could include people the US imprisoned in countries where there were wars like Iraq and Afghanistan, countries where the US worked with local authoritarian governments to lock up "religious fundamentalists", etc, and my guess is it's a lot higher than 50K.
And that doesn't count people killed or otherwise uprooted.
- coeneedell 4y agoI was mainly trying to highlight the difference in scale and focus between these two programs of detaining people. Even if we add another order of magnitude of people for your upper bound it’s still smaller in scale than the gulags, and it’s focused on foreign nationals instead of the government’s own citizens.
- cies 4y agoSmall scale gulags. But still gulags.