Rumors have been flying today that the U.S. has captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's top al Qaeda terrorist. The Drudge Report says U.S. military and intelligence sources are denying the report, but we sure hope they're true--not just for the obvious reason, but also because confirmation hearings are about to begin for Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales.
Bizarre as it may sound, the Democrats apparently intend to accuse Gonzales of being insufficiently kind to America's terrorist enemies--presumably including Zarqawi, if he's captured alive. In a column today, the Washington Post's Richard Cohen http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45936-2005Jan3.html likens the interrogation of terrorists, which he dubs "torture," to the tactics of the totalitarian state in George Orwell's "1984." Lost on Cohen is the distinction between trying to control the thoughts of innocent citizens and trying to prevent mass murder by extracting information from terrorists.
Obviously gratuitous abuses like those at Abu Ghraib are intolerable, and the perpetrators should be prosecuted (as they are being). But Cohen's and the Democrats' obsession with treating terrorists nicely bespeaks a dangerous moral vanity. They seem to think it is worth increasing the risk of another 9/11--or worse--in order for America to avoid the taint of being accused by the likes of the Red Cross of acts "tantamount to torture," whatever that means.
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Maybe I grew up with too much Hogan's Heros, but I appluad the rules of treating POWs. Unlike Hogan however, many of the current detainees are not fighting for a country, are not wearing a uniform, and are not targeting their fire only at a uniformed enemy. The definition of 'torture' includes standing for hours, verbal abuse and loud music... sounds like the same thing a sub-minimum wage cocktail waitress in Vegas goes through daily.
If you don't want to be tortured, don't fight us, or at least don't get caught, and please stop cutting the heads off of every non-combatant hostage you take.
And next time you are in Vegas, tip well.
Sentient comments. Vegas can indeed feel like a stint in Gitmo, if you do it right. Hopefully, the sex is better....
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