Jeff Weintraub is right: Gen. Petraeus’s explicit denunciation of all forms of maltreatment of captives is in the best traditions of the country and its army, going back to George Washington.
And somebody else is also right, though at the moment I can’t remember who: All the politicians, including Rudy Giuliani, who accuse those who oppose torture of being foolishlly “soft,” ignorant of the realities of asymmetric warfare, and indifferent to the risk of more terrorist attacks here, now need to say whether they want to apply their slander to Gen. Petraeus, or whether they’d rather take it back.
