It has been a month since Congress and the Administration had a Puritan orgy of self recrimination about torture in Abu Ghraib prison. This orgy was a unifying feat since the Left, Middle and the Right expressed 180 tons of opprobrium each.
I, on the other hand, believe that it is now time to give the Congressional Medal of Honor to the geniuses who invented this torture. I still can’t believe that an American invented a torture based on putting woman’s lace panties on the head of a naked Arab male and photographing him or forming a pyramid of naked Arab males, all face down with bags over their heads and a smiling woman standing behind their behinds for a glamour photo. A Puritan society just doesn’t have interrogators with such a vivid imagination; especially a vivid sexual imagination.
It is my guess that this may be the most successful form of interrogation ever used against Arabs. It was a peacenik’s dream of painless coercion. Congratulations again to the geniuses who invented this brilliant form of interrogation.