THE LEFT'S TORTURE OFFENSIVE

Friday's NYT detainee abuse article continues to evolve – see earlier post here. Here's a Bob Herbert excerpt from today's NYT:

The catalog of confirmed atrocities is huge.

Consider just one paragraph from a long and horrifying story on Friday by Tim Golden of The Times about the torture and brutal deaths of two Afghan inmates at the hands of U.S. troops:

"In sworn statements to Army investigators, soldiers describe one female interrogator with a taste for humiliation stepping on the neck of one prostrate detainee and kicking another in the genitals. They tell of a shackled prisoner being forced to roll back and forth on the floor of a cell, kissing the boots of his two interrogators as he went. Yet another prisoner is made to pick plastic bottle caps out of a drum mixed with excrement and water as part of a strategy to soften him up for questioning."

These were among the milder abuses to come to light. The continuum of bad behavior that has been a hallmark of the so-called war on terror extends from this kind of activity to incidents of extreme torture and death.

Atrocities, what atrocities?

The harsh treatment described in the original NYT article is now extreme torture. What next, super-extreme torture? How about super-extreme ultimate torture?

Regardless, it's bullshit.