While they're in the neighborhood ...

... maybe the international Red Cross can score an invitation from the Cuban government to meet with political prisoners in its jails.

But then again, the Red Cross, United Nations and just about everyone else quick to condemn the United States for its treatment of terrorists has long made a habit of ignoring what happens on the other side of Gitmo's fence.

There are more than 300 political prisoners in the Castro brothers' gulag.

When will the Red Cross or Amnesty International get their invitation to visit them?

And when will that punk-for-tyrants Kofi Annan say something like this about Cuba, as he did the United States?

There must be no "trade between the effective fight against terrorism and protection of civil liberties."

Prisons in Cuba, on both sides of the Gitmo fenceline, are nasty, nasty places.

The difference is the terrorists in U.S. custody are killers.

The political prisoners in Cuban jails are there because of what they believe — freedom — and their willingness to stand up for their beliefs.

When will more of the world stand up for them?

UPDATED, 11:48 a.m. EDT

Malkin has the run-down on whom is being transferred in to Guantanamo.