After the post last night, I was wondering if perhaps I wasn't over-reacting to the articles in the New Yorker and Newsweek. Few others (except for those on the partisan far left) seemed to share my sense that the administration's conscious effort to bypass the Geneva Convention was one of the dark moments in our national history, at least as bad, if not worse than, the internment of Japanese during WWII.
But as the day wore on, this particular train seemed to pick up steam. Fred Kaplan writes that the associated scandal goes to the top of both the DoD and the White House, and might be the biggest since Watergate. Kevin Drum picks up the ball and Brad DeLong highlights the hypocrisy of White House Counsel Gonzales.
Finally, in the international press, the estimable William Pfaff weighs in and comes to the inevitable conclusion:
But who debauched these young American men and women soldiers? I would argue that the moral debauchery came down the chain of command from Washington.
It's still early, and there is a lot of hyperbole in the air (must every nascent scandal be compared to Watergate?) but as I said last night, the descent will be swift.
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