Who’s been studying Kafka in the Bush-Cheney-Pace-Rumsfeld military, and treating it as a manual? (Probably not Bush, right?)

After the recent Guantanamo suicides, although the military portrayed the suicides variously as “an act of asymmetrical warfare” and a “good PR move to draw attention”, much of the world insisted on seeing the suicides as acts of despair, triggered by the prospect of being detained indefinitely under non-Geneva convention conditions:

Ken Roth, head of Human Rights Watch in New York, told the BBC the men had probably been driven by despair.

“These people are despairing because they are being held lawlessly,” he said.

“There’s no end in sight. They’re not being brought before any independent judges. They’re not being charged and convicted for any crime.”

In a Kafkaesque nightmare, what is the proper next move by the authorities? You suspend even the limited and possibly tainted legal proceedings that are under way:

The defence department has suspended all military trials for suspects at the US detention camp.

No reason was given for the move announced in a Pentagon statement.