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Betsy Newmark points to this Karl Zinsmeister piece<\/a> in the American Enterprise Magazine<\/a>, and it\u2019s worth reading.<\/p>\n

As the Wall Street Journal noted the day after July\u2019s London bombings, the West\u2019s \u201cresolve continues to fade along with public memories of 9\/11. For months the debate in Washington hasn\u2019t been over how best to fight terrorists but how harshly we treat them. Rather than strengthen the Patriot Act, Congress wants to weaken it\u2026. The press corps has wallowed in Abu Ghraib as the defining event of the entire Iraq War.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Would you believe that the number of formal U.S. investigations of how terror detainees are being treated recently reached 189? What mad self-doubt and softness! Of course we need to weed out cruel or out-of-control guards, but the clear picture of the many commissions and blue-ribbon investigations is that our detainment system is pretty tight and self-regulating, that gentleness to the point of political correctness is the norm, and that rogue actions are nearly always found out and punished, usually quite severely.<\/p>\n

Our fastidiousness in handling dangerous terrorists has reached the point of self-flagellation, and now seriously impairs our war-fighting and intelligence-gathering capabilities. In Iraq, for instance, the terrorists now know that U.S. soldiers cannot interrogate them with any intensity, and that if they keep their mouths shut our own rules require that they must be released within three days. That\u2019s why I saw Iraqis this spring specifically request that their relatives involved in the insurgency be arrested by U.S. soldiers rather than Iraqi troops (who have less dainty ideas about detainment and interrogation).<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll want to read the whole thing, but when I read the number of investigations we have already begun into how we are treating our prisoners, my jaw dropped.<\/p>\n

Helloooo? I think everyone can agree that had anything earthshakingly untoward been discovered through these \u201cinvestigations\u201d there are more than enough leakers in Congress and elsewhere to put it out there to the press\u2026and the press, being no friend to the war, the president or to the troops they supposedly \u201csupport\u201d (they \u201csupport\u201d them but won\u2019t write a good word for them) would be quick indeed to get the information out there. It is as foolish to suggest that the press would \u201ccover up\u201d American indiscretions in their military prisons as it is to suggest that they would \u201ccover up\u201d for Karl Rove on a matter of national security\u2026or for any reason, come to that.<\/p>\n

Betsy says it is unbelievable<\/a> that we are doing this to ourselves in the middle of a war. She is quite right. But, you know\u2026there is always another call for another investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"