Editorial Disagreement (Posted by AS)

First of all, I guess it's pretty sad that only the bloggers are commenting on their own blog - If a blog tree falls in the forest and nobody reads it...

Anyway, I feel it incumbent as the more centrist member of this blog to comment on Dan's most recent post on torture. I take a somewhat different view.

Yes, the U.S. is obligated to conduct itself according to international law and universally accepted norms on "torture", etc., etc., etc. But to compare the treatment of the Christian missionaries in Haiti to that of the Guantanamo detainees seems to strain credulity. Clearly, the potential for important information being extracted from terror suspects is far, far greater than anything in the investigation of "Orphangate."

Maybe I'm missing Dan's point, but I have no problem with "hard interrogation" of people who are actively involved in sowing terror against our country. Maybe some of those at Guantanamo aren't guilty of what they are accused, but Islamic Fundamentalists are still at war with the U.S., an asymmetrical war where the rules are a whole lot different than in a criminal prosecution.