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The American Enterprise Magazine looks at where we are now that it is almost four years after 9/11. Meanwhile, Karl Zinsmeister notes this little tidbit.
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.
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’s 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).
I can't figure out how we got to 189 investigations. That is just unbelievable to be doing this to ourselves while we're still fighting the war.
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