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ast night I headlined a report of a missile attack in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border area, saying it sounded like the sort of operation designed to take out Taliban leadership.

We have a confirmation of sorts … from the Taliban:

A missile apparently fired at a religious seminary in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal region early Monday killed seven people, a local Taliban leader said.

The pre-dawn attack was carried out at a ‘madrassa’ at the border region of Azam Warsak at 3 a.m., Maulavi Nazeer said.

The missile attack also injured three others, he said.

Locals said that the missiles struck seminary belong to a local cleric Maulana Jalail, who is considered to be linked with Taliban.

Locals believe that the missiles were fired from Afghanistan to hit a house in the Pakistani area near the border with Afghanistan.

The army spokesman confirmed the incident but did not say if it was missile strike or a bomb blast.

He said the coalition forces exchange intelligence with Pakistani forces before their actions. (Global Security/IRNA)

Al Jazeera adds:

Residents said the house where the missiles struck belonged to local tribesman Malik Salat and that suspected pro-Taliban fighters used to stay there.

Several villagers said they heard jets approaching from Afghanistan before the strike.

Still waiting for something official … and that’s interesting. In some earlier attacks, there were immediate outraged charges of civilian deaths and mutterings from the DoD about investigations. Reaction to this attack is muted … as if we hit what we wanted to hit.

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MSM Still Blowing Off Edwards Love Child Story

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just ran a Nexis search of newspapers and newswires over the last week for “John AND Edwards AND Enquirer” and it’s obvious that the MSM are not the least bit interested in reporting on John Edwards’ affair while his wife fights cancer.

Here’s the Nexis tally for Edwards: Six stories total, appearing in the Miami Herald, SF Wrongicle, Boston Herald, The Columbian in Wash. state, the Kansas City Star and the Philly Daily News. No major papers at all, no newswires. This after the story has now been verified by Fox News.

Meanwhile, the foreign press is doing the job journalists are supposed to do. Here’s the stodgy London Sunday Times:

Sleaze scuppers Democrat golden boy

Gotcha: Senator John Edwards, whose wife has cancer, has been caught in a sex scandal that ends his vice-presidential hopes

SCRATCH John Edwards off the list of potential vice-presidential candidates. The former White House contender, who had been hoping to get the nod from Barack Obama, is in the midst of a full-blown sex scandal.

Every supermarket shopper knows that the preternaturally youthful former senator for North Carolina may have fathered a love child with a film-maker while Elizabeth, his saintly wife, is dying of cancer. There are sensational new details on the National Enquirer website, although most of the media have done their best to ignore them.

The tabloid magazine cornered Edwards, 55, leaving a Los Angeles hotel where Rielle Hunter, his alleged mistress, and her baby were staying, at 2.40am last Tuesday. He ran down a hallway and dived into the men’s bathroom. A hotel security guard confirmed the encounter. “His face just went totally white,” the guard said.

The story has been bubbling away for months, but so far there has been not a word about it in the mainstream newspapers, even though Edwards was John Kerry’s running mate in 2004 and has been tipped for a prominent job in an Obama administration – if not vice-president, then attorney-general or antipoverty tsar. (Read more here)

See, it’s not that hard to report this story … if you’re not an American newspaper in the pocket of the DNC.
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Was Jimmy Carter Right After All?

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ow there’s a question I bet you thought you’d never be asked, but it’s official: Historian Joseph Wheelan asks it on History News Network in a little piece he titled Is it Safe Now to Admit Jimmy Carter Was Right?.

No, of course he’s not alluding to Carter’s flaccid stand on Iran and terrorism; it’s his 1979 “Crisis of Confidence” speech that’s got Wheelan all hopped up on Karter Kool Aid.

We admirers have long endured ridicule whenever we dared to defend Carter’s prescient plan for reducing U.S. dependence on oil.

But today, after all the abuse and scorn heaped on Jimmy Carter and his supporters, we find ourselves paying more than $4 a gallon at the pump to fill our hulking gas guzzlers.

It turns out that Carter was right after all.

He was?! Let’s review the list of Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” recommendations:

• Requiring auto manufacturers to deliver by 1995 an auto fleet that tools along at 48 miles per gallon. The Smart Car, which gets very unstable at high speeds, gets 36 mpg. The Prius does get 48 mpg, so we’d need an all-Prius fleet to achieve Carter’s goal. Oh. Boy.
• Asking Americans to turn down their thermostats. Conservation is always a good idea, but the amount of energy saved if all Americans had donned dorky cardigans is a pittance compared to what we now save with energy-efficient systems brought to us not by government mandate as much as free market demand.
• Establishing a tax on “windfall” oil profits to finance a crash program to develop affordable synthetic fuels. Yeah, those synthetic fuels have fared wonderfully. And taxing corporate profits is always a great way to encourage business innovation, which explains all the technological innovation coming out of France.
• Setting a goal of 20 percent solar by … eight years ago. He apparently never computed the cost, which would make $4 a gallon gas seem like a gift, nor amount of acreage that would be required for solar farms, nor the protests of the environmental movement against any such idea.

Wheeler is just another historian who refuses to learn from history and still thinks that somehow government knows better than the free market. Besides being utterly unrealistic, Carter’s ideas are as bad today as they were in 1979. So of course Barack Obama pretty much did a Carter cut-and-paste to come up with his energy policy. Continue Reading »

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Mr. President, send out the letter today canning this guy. He’s Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, and from what I can tell, he’s using our troops to wrangle some more money from his programs.

How else can you explain this?

The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government’s top psychiatric researcher said.

Community mental health centers, hobbled by financial limits, haven’t provided enough scientifically sound care, especially in rural areas, said Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He briefed reporters today at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in Washington.

Really? These are numbers we can believe?

Let’s see. There have been about 4,500 deaths of US troops on both fronts and 430 suicides among the 1.7 million US troops that have served in the two combat theaters.

For Insel’s prediction to come true, suicide frequency will have to grow ten-fold. While that seems unlikely at first blush, you have to remember that when the war ends, the number of combat fatalities will stop growing, but suicides will continue for years afterwards. Insel is obviously figuring that over time, the suicide stats will slowly build until one day they pass combat fatalities.

But how long will have to pass before Insel will say that war was not the primary factor in the suicide? Two? Ten? Twenty? It is improbable that even without enough mental health clinics in rural areas that Insel’s prediction will come true within a reasonable number of years.

Besides, will every suicide of a war vet be attributed to the war even when there are obviously other more significant factors?

Finally, in blaming the lack of government-funded mental health facilities, Insel overlooks other sources of counseling: health insurance funded programs, a guy whipping out his wallet and paying for it himself, families taking care of their own, or counseling through churches and other caring organizations.

It couldn’t be more obvious that Insel is trolling for dollars and has figured out a way to cook the stats to justify the argument.

Look, I think anything less than first class care for returning vets stinks, especially since the cost differential between so-so care and stellar care is inconsequential. A lot of returning vets will need counseling and they should be able to get it. If they’re living far out in the sticks, they may have to go somewhere other than a neat little clinic funded by NIMH. C’est la vie. People who live in the country understand this phenomenon and choose to live there nonetheless; it doesn’t mean every West Virginia holler and Oklahoma crossroads needs an NIMH crew at the ready.

What I don’t like is a federal bucks-hunter distorting the problem, then riding it into the budget gladiator arena, hoping it’s the right weapon to take money away from some other deserving program — especially when his weapon of choice reflects badly on on war effort and the valiant men and women who are fighting it.

One suicide is too many … especially when someone is exploiting it.

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Bringing Honor Back To “Monica”

Here’s a story out of Afghanistan that would be completely wonderful, were it not for the five wounded US soldiers that are central to it:

CAMP SALERNO, Afghanistan (AP) – A 19-year-old medic from Texas will become the first woman in Afghanistan and only the second female soldier since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the nation’s third-highest medal for valor.

Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown saved the lives of fellow soldiers after a roadside bomb tore through a convoy of Humvees in the eastern Paktia province in April 2007, the military said.

After the explosion, which wounded five soldiers in her unit, Brown ran through insurgent gunfire and used her body to shield wounded comrades as mortars fell less than 100 yards away, the military said.

“I did not really think about anything except for getting the guys to a safer location and getting them taken care of and getting them out of there,” Brown told The Associated Press on Saturday at a U.S. base in the eastern province of Khost. …

Brown, of the 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, said ammunition going off inside the burning Humvee was sending shrapnel in all directions. She said they were sitting in a dangerous spot.

“So we dragged them for 100 or 200 meters, got them away from the Humvee a little bit,” she said. “I was in a kind of a robot-mode, did not think about much but getting the guys taken care of.”

For Brown, who knew all five wounded soldiers, it became a race to get them all to a safer location. Eventually, they moved the wounded some 500 yards away and treated them on site before putting them on a helicopter for evacuation.

“I did not really have time to be scared,” Brown said. “Running back to the vehicle, I was nervous (since) I did not know how badly the guys were injured. That was scary.”

The military said Brown’s “bravery, unselfish actions and medical aid rendered under fire saved the lives of her comrades and represents the finest traditions of heroism in combat.”

Can you imagine having that maturity, esprit de corps and selflessness at the age of 19? I just asked that of Incredible Daughter #2, who happens to be 19, and she just shook her head and said, “That’s crazy.”

It does take a little crazy to be a good soldier, and five guys in her unit and all of America have a very good, and a little crazy, soldier to thank this morning for her valor.

Name The Fanatical Motivation

What motivated these fanatics? I had the answer five words into this story … but had to read 18 paragraphs before BBC provided just a hint:

Suspected militants arrested in western China earlier this year were planning attacks on the Beijing Olympics, a Chinese official says.

Two people were reported to have been killed and 15 arrested in a raid on 27 January in Urumqi, Xinjiang province.

Officials now say their aim was to attack the August Olympics.

The alleged plot was disclosed as officials also revealed that a plane crew prevented an apparent attempt to crash a jet on an internal flight.

The incident occurred on Friday.

Put “militants” and “Western China” together and what do you have? Islamists! BBC can’t bring itself to say that, though. Way down at paragraph 18 and beyond we find:

China has been struggling for years to contain separatist sentiment among the Uighur minority in Xinjiang.

Some Uighurs have campaigned for the mainly Muslim province to become an independent republic.

There it is: “mainly Muslim.” And then you can read “separatist” to mean “wanting to set up a Shari’a theocracy.”

Not that the media would ever make it that clear.

Gagging On Universal Health Care

A lot of us smell a rat on hearing the Dem-patter on the need for a system of universal health care. “Smell a rat” is just a figure of speech, of course … [cue the sinister voice] … or is it?

LONDON (Reuters) – A patient was told there was no reason why he couldn’t have surgery in a hospital, despite the smell caused by a dead rodent trapped in the building’s ceiling.

Andrew Cowper was due to have an operation at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital in Hertfordshire when staff “were made aware of a dead rodent in the single storey unit’s roof space,” the hospital said in a statement.

The hospital said its experts concluded that the dead animal was outside the operating theater and posed no risk.

Cowper, 19, who had been waiting 11 months for the unspecified operation, opted out, despite the experts opinion that it was perfectly safe under the rule of England’s national health care system to be cut open within feet of a decomposing rodent.

Why I’m Not As Famous As Lileks

You remember Benny Sharon, the drugged-up Hebrew University prof and latter-day Timothy Leary, who recently postulated that Moses (I think that’s Moses on the right and Jethro on the left) was stoned when he had a vision of God giving him tablets, and that the real hand-off never occurred. I thought my post on Sharon was pretty clever … then I read what James Lileks had to say in his Bleat on the subject (with a hat-tip to Jim).

Talk about an effective rebuttal!

I just remembered that I called the Bob Davis show this morning to talk about the new theory re: Moses and the Ten Commandments: dude was high. Apparently a professor somewhere has suggested that the entire experience was the result of a mushroom or some such ceremonial intoxicant. I called to say I didn’t believe it, because if Moses was tripping we wouldn’t have ten commandments. We would have three. The first would make sense, more or less; the second, written half an hour later, would command profound respect for lizards who sit on stones and look at you, because they’re freaking incredible when you think about it, and the third would be gibberish. Never mind the problem of getting the tablets down the mountain – anyone who has experience of watching stoners try to assemble pizza money when the doorbell rings doubts that Moses could have hauled stone tablets all the way down.

After the chuckles (or “grass-giggles” if you will) die down, Lileks gets to The Big Point:

Sure: you cannot call them Commandments without someone doing the Commanding, and once they’re not commandments they lose the moral authority that supercedes the individual precepts. It doesn’t mean they’re not good ideas still; it just means they are one set of ideas in competition with other ideas that found their origin in the rude clay of history.

That, my friends, is why people who so enjoy sinning spend so much time and energy attacking the foundations of religion.

Whaling War Escalates

Paul Watson, a founder of GreenPeace who now has moved on to forcefully impose his anti-human view on others as captain of the anti-whaling ship Sea Shepard, is facing some stiff opposition this time around as Japanese whaling boat captains are standing up to his grandstanding:

Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd group’s protest ship Steve Irwin, said on Friday he was shot, but survived because he was wearing a Kevlar vest.

Japan’s fisheries agency said coastguard officials had only thrown “flash grenades,” which are used for crowd control and are not regarded as weapons, after activists threw stink bombs on to the Japanese factory ship the Nisshin Maru. (source)

Tit for tat, I’d say.

Previously, the Japanese seized two whale-lovers who boarded a whaler and held them for quite some time, keeping them handcuffed to an outside railing to enjoy the Antarctic weather until an Australian fisheries patrol vessel intervened.

C-SM readers know I grew up in Japan, but you probably don’t know that one day when I opened my bag lunch at school, I found that our housekeeper had made me a pineapple and canned whale meat sandwich. Yum … not.

In my eleven years in Japan, my encounters with whale meat were slim to almost none. The Japanese whaling industry says whaling is cultural to the Japanese — but whale meat is rarely served and hardly popular.

Still, anyone who stands up to holier-than-thou Watson — a certifiable jerk-off who, when just 10, shot a kid in the butt to stop him from shooting a bird, and who once said “earthworms are far more valuable than people” — is a hero in my eyes.

For more on the chief thug of eco-terrorism, read the bio on Activist Cash or this one on Target of Opportunity (a bit of a scary site in its own right). Skip Wikipedia; it’s a bunch of bullsh … propaganda.

Muff Diving?!

Yes, there is a town in Ireland called “Muff,” and yes, there is a SCUBA diving shop there named after the town.

That’s just one of the bizarre bits of info on European towns I learned on Spiegel’s quiz based on the odd nature of European town names. (You’re going into the quiz with a one-question advantage, thanks to me!)

If you thought “muff diving” is a bit obscene, just you wait … it gets much more X-rated than that!

Making Jerry Brown Look Good

It’s common knowledge that Cal. AG Jerry Brown is using global warming grandstanding as a stage for a run for the governorship — Moonbeam II, if you will.

Frightening as that thought is, Brown just became a minor irritant in the scheme of things, as reported by the SF Wrongicle:

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is considering a 2010 run for governor – a campaign that would embrace many of the same divisive causes he has championed as mayor, including same-sex marriage, universal health care and protections for illegal immigrants, The Chronicle has learned.

Newsom has long been rumored to be a potential contender in what is likely to be a crowded field of Democrats looking to succeed Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a list that includes Attorney General and former Gov. Jerry Brown, former state Controller Steve Westly and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio ["Grease-Zipper"] Villaraigosa.

In recent months, Newsom has quietly been meeting with Democratic campaign strategists and other supporters to discuss a gubernatorial run, and he is now “certain to at least consider the possibility,” said Eric Jaye, a Newsom confidant and political consultant.

When asked whether he was planning to run, Newsom said, “A number of people in the last few months have reached out and talked to me about it.”

Could there be better proof of the premise that big fish in small ponds tend to think they can be big fish in big ponds? Can you imagine how Newsome’s honoring of a gay porn studio would play in Fresno? How his city’s sanctuary city status will play in Orange County and San Diego? And shall we consider the stinking $229 million black pit that is the city’s finances?

(If you want a good rundown of the bizarreness of life under Newsome, here’s a list of SF-watcher Bookworm’s posts on Baghdad by the Bay.)

Bring it on. Let the Dems strut their stuff in the Cal primaries, turning off sane Californians by the multitudes.

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This just in from CNN breaking news email services:

– Britain’s Prince Harry has been serving on the front line in Afghanistan, CNN confirms.

Gee … I’ve heard that the Taliban and al-Qaeda monitor CNN. Did anyone at CNN headquarters think of that before rushing out this bit of news that in itself is not too newsworthy — but sure would be if our enemy successfully exploited it?

CNN’s idiocy notwithstanding, kudos to Prince Harry for being a real man in addition to a prince.

hat-tip: Jim

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My heroic brother-in-law Brian has just returned from Afghanistan. He was there to personally deliver police equipment donated to Brotherhood of the Badge to Afghani police personnel.

Here’s his report, edited a bit:

I just returned from Afghanistan last Sunday, from our 5th Middle East Mission for Brotherhood of the Badge. Prior to this mission, we already have outfitted 21,000 Iraqi Police Officers. Be aware that each those police were personally recruited, trained and in operations directly under US Military Troops of the 4th Infantry, the 101st Airborne and the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. The result is numerous reports of Iraqi Police Officers’ lives saved by our vests, 46 to 47 to date.

Are there corrupt police, police leaders and even the Ministry of the Interior (M.O.I.) in charge of the police? Yes. Are we making progress in a nation ruled for 1 1/2 generations under Saddam? That answer is yes too.

There is 20% more population in Afghanistan than Iraq and it is a larger country geographically as well. The total GNP was only $870 million for over 31,000,000 people. Because the Provinces have no tax revenues, the Province Governors had their controlled police do illegal checkpoints to rob people and send the money to the Governor.

Now, instead of sending a few officer candidates to the academy and them returning under the control of the Governors, it has changed. Under the FDD Program, all of the city’s police are taken in one group to the academy. The city is back-filled with National Police Swat Teams. Then when all are trained together, developed with Anti-corruption training and then given raises of $30 to $100 monthly upon completion, they are returned and deployed as a unit.

That police unit is then under the American Eye and no longer under any control of the Governors. This has cut down on corruption, creates trust among the citizens and creates an Espirit de Corps unknown before. They are proud, capable and have new authority. They are embraced by the locals and the program is working city by city, district by district, province by province.

Is it perfect? No. Is it improving toward the Thin Blue Line new democracies require to succeed? Yes it is.

We received intelligence briefings from a law enforcement liaison who has been in Baghdad and now is in the Green Zone of Kabul, Afghanistan. That gentlemen said, “We have been able to really move forward with our training and equipping directly due to the Brotherhood of the Badge program.” The Afghan Minister of Police asked how many of their police we could equip and we asked how many will they have. We will have 82,000 police per the Minister, and our response was, “From the 850,000 police, sheriffs and law enforcement officers of the United States, we will equip 82,000 police officers from our officer’s equipment donations.”

We only require the US military provide us Space Available on transport airplanes, as we have spent over $120,000 in shipping expenses and cannot do more. We have supplied over $10.5 million worth of gear to Iraq, collecting the gear from law enforcement agencies from California to New York. We have received as few as five ballistic vests from a small eastern city, to Orange County (CA) Police agencies under the leadership of the Santa Ana Police Department Chief Paul Walters, with $2 million of gear donated from 19 cities.

This small group of volunteers, six of us total, in the Brotherhood of the Badge have worked tirelessly for four years to help our new Brothers in Blue. Meeting with our troops in the Middle East and the local police officers, who all express their need and appreciation, make every minute of that effort worth working. Freedom marches as a result of the officers we equip, one officer at a time.

Do consider contributing to Brotherhood of the Badge.

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This just in from the Cheat-Seeking Missiles Global Warming Debate Is Over Desk:

More than 750 people have perished as a result of severe cold and heavy snowfalls this winter across Afghanistan, a government official said on Saturday.

The cold spell, the worst in decades in the impoverished and mountainous central Asian country, has also killed nearly 230,000 cattle, said Noor Padshah Kohistani of the National Disaster Management Commission. (source)

More than 500 homes have been destroyed, roads have been closed, and authorities say the livestock loss will have longstanding economic repercussions on rural villages.

This story, like so many others, will be filed under “the debate is over.”

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In Afghanistan, a young journalism student — just 23 years old — has been sentenced to death for printing up his own little newspaper with stuff he downloaded from the internet — stuff Islamic judges have decreed violates Islam.

Click here for Sayad Parwez Kambaksh’s story. The story is not at its final chapter yet, though. Kambaksh has a couple appeals before his fate, whatever it may ultimately be, will be sealed.

Some pundits will seize this story as an example of our failure to stop the Taliban and its influence in Afghanistan. They include Jules Crittenden, who wrote this a.m.:

I thought the point of that invasion was to bring an end to this kind of thing.

But he and the others miss the point by half. Yes, it would have been nice if the invasion would have instantaneously re-righted a ship that’s been leaning hard-Islam for centuries, but could we have at least an iota of reasonableness in our expectations?

It may not have been the point of the invasion, but it is because of the invasion that we are reading about what’s happening to Kambaksh. Until America had the audacity to secure freedom for Afghans — something the Russians certainly never intended to offer them — those who defied the Islamic inner circle’s opinion of what was right suffered in medieval anonymity.

AP did not carry their stories. Memeorandum did not pick the stories up and re-distribute them broadly over the Internet. The secret councils just did their dirty work for Allah out of sight, with no one to stand up for the victims of Mohammed, He Who Must Never, Never, Ever Be Challenged. There was no public knowledge or public opinion — because the public simply did not matter.

That has all changed with the invasion. The spotlight of the world is on the ancient brutality of Islam, and Islam is not standing up well to the scrutiny. As the West rises up in protest, and it certainly will rise up to defend Kambaksh, it empowers those within the repressive Islamic system who want to speak more freely, to vote in elections, to control their own destiny. And it weakens those who use the Koran to keep the people chained.

So yes, the invasion is putting and end to this sort of thing. But the invasion is not a superhero that can jump tall institutions in a single bound. It is a thing of incremental gains, and we will see this again in the case of this young journalist who, I’ll bet you, will not be executed.

So hooray for the invasion. Without it, it would be much worse in Afghanistan, and much, much worse for a certain young journalism student.

Photo: Time

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The NYT has a new story based on confidential sources about War on Terror prisons today. Unable to dredge up anything new in Guantanamo, the doyen of the “all the bad news that’s fit to print” bunch focuses instead on a prison operated by the U.S. (presumably for NATO) at the Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan.

Near the top of the story, NYT tries to hype up the hysteria:

The Red Cross said the prisoners were kept from its inspectors and sometimes subjected to cruel treatment in violation of the Geneva Conventions, one of the officials said.

Note the bizarre sentence structure. The first part, about prisoners being kept from inspectors, is attributed to the Red Cross. The latter part, about unspecified “cruel treatment” is attributed to an official. What does “of the” refer to? We’re supposed to believe it’s a Red Cross official, and it may well be, but it’s not clear since the reporter attempted to jam it all into one sentence in the hope that we would automatically attribute it all to official Red Cross communications

The allegations of “cruel treatment,” whatever that means to today’s re-definers of torture, does not appear to be an official finding of the Red Cross, leaving the reporter (Tim Golden) with no choice but to stretch the grammar on a torture rack to cover up the fact.

So once again, we’re the bad guys. But wait. Let’s see what they’ve buried under the rug. Seven paragraphs down, we find this:

In a confidential diplomatic agreement in August 2005, a draft of which was obtained by The New York Times [how?], the Bush administration said it would transfer the detainees [from Bagram to a new Afghanistan prison] if the Kabul government gave written assurances that it would treat the detainees humanely and abide by elaborate security conditions. As part of the accord, the United States said it would finance the rebuilding of an Afghan prison block and help equip and train an Afghan guard force. (emphasis added)

Since the Afghan government hasn’t been able to meet these requirements yet due to interdepartmental squabbling, the prison is not yet finished, leading to the overcrowding at Bagram, leading to the NYT story about the just awful overcrowded conditions that Taliban terror operatives are being kept in.

Of course, if we didn’t require the Afghans to treat the prisoners humanely, things might be progressing more quickly. That would lead to this headline: US Demands for Humane Treatment Slow Afghan Prison, a headline we’re not likely to see any time soon in the NYT.

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