Here’s Andrew Sullivan writing today on the devastating revelation that the American military did not give the Red Cross prompt access to detainees at Gitmo (heavens, no!):
That’s ridiculous on its face, but fine. Let’s take a trip down memory lane though, way, way back to October of this year, when the Washington Post reported on the reunion of WWII interrogators at Fort Hunt:
What did Andrew say about the men at Fort Hood? That they were torturing their prisoners? No, he took precisely the opposite view, holding these men up as “the real America“–which they undoubtedly are:
Andrew, you are accused of hysteria because you are hysterical. And inconsistent. What, exactly, is the difference between these two stories, which both feature Americans denying prisoners access to the Red Cross? And the Germans were uniformed combatants–if anything, the failure to do so was worse then. But for Sullivan’s purposes, I suppose accusing the entire Guantanamo Naval Station of war crimes is as easy as pressing ‘publish.’
