Letter: Taliban prisoners won’t want to ever go home

Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2002 | 8:41 a.m.

In reference to columnist Charles Levendosky and his plea for treatment of the Taliban "POWs" in his Jan. 21 commentary, "U.S. must treat prisoners fairly":

Of course we must treat them kindly. Kindly such as our men received from Japan and Germany and of late Somalia. We can't put them to work as Japan and Germany did in our coal mines or industry -- that would not be fair treatment. It would probably throw Americans out of work when many are now out of work due to Osama bin Laden.

Did the International Committee of the Red Cross observe conditions of the prison camps of Japan and Germany? Did our men get enough to eat and get medical treatment?

We will probably give the al-Qaida solders the best treatment they ever had, and they will not want to go home.

JEAN COLBY

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