Abu Ghraib in reverse?

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Life in U.S.-run detention camps in Iraq is so good that a new trend has emerged: Detainees are refusing to leave. Agence France Presse reports:

“In the last three or four months we have begun seeing detainees asking to stay in detention, usually to complete their studies,” Major General Douglas Stone told a news conference in Baghdad.

The US military offers a wide range of educational programmes to the 23,000 or so detainees — adults and juveniles — being held at its two detention facilities. . . Some parents of juvenile detainees, too, have asked that their children remain behind bars so they can continue their schooling. . .

In an even crazier twist, parents are asking if the siblings of detainees can come and be locked up with their brothers so that they, too, can benefit from U.S. education programs. Such a development, of course, calls into question the popular leftist image of detention camps as American-run gulags. But I don’t expect to see any front-page pictures of detainees holding up schoolbooks as a counterpoint to the images of Abu Ghraib.