re: Detainee in Iraq Poses a Dilemma as U.S. Exit Nears

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/world/middleeast/militarys-last-detainee-in-iraq-poses-dilemma-for-obama.html

To the Editor:

   If the U.S. has helped establish a free a sovereign government in Iraq as we so proudly claim, surely mr. Daqduq is their problem. If the government in Baghdad is a U.S. puppet regime, surely we can take him.  A problem only arises when we try to claim that the regime in Baghdad is sovereign, but treat it like our puppet. It's not easy being an empire.

Barry Haskell Levine