"Peggy Noonan just gave the green-light to America's enemies (and select "allies") to torture American soldiers."Agreed. If the US can walk away from these horrific transgressions, so too should anyone who commits the same horrors against US service-people.
It certainly seems to me that there is an argument that those who conducted these 'interrogations' honestly and in good faith believed that they were acting under the colour of law. However, the memos, now that we have had a chance to read and review them, were clearly written by those who had the legal training to understand that these 'interrogation methods' did in fact count as torture and made efforts to provide their political masters with arguments that provided a legal basis for the 'techniques'. There is clear culpability in those memo authors for they knew that their arguments were unsupported by the law.
The other side of the coin is of course those political superiors. Why would the legal advisors make such efforts to write the torturous logical gymnastics necessary to give an appearance of legitimacy to these 'enhanced techniques' without the need for these memos expressed by those very superiors.
Let's face it: the Bush administration wanted a get out of jail free card in order to do what they knew to be legally prohibited: torture.
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