The Real Brutal Truth About Gitmo Interrogations

Via Rich Lowry:

Detainees sit in a La-Z-Boy chair during interrogations, and beverages and movies are available to put them at ease. The most effective interrogator is said to be an older woman who adopts a nurturing attitude.

I'll spare you the obvious Monty Python joke and just skip right to the sulfurous fulminations:

I. We treat these people not just humanely, but absurdly so; and,

II. The outrage about captured prisoner treatment is mostly manufactured partisan hackery playing on the fears of sincere people who don't want us doing things we've never given orders to do; and,

III. If I had my choice of being shipped off to Gitmo or either of the Federal prisons at Lompoc, CA tomorrow, presuming I would be held safe from the jihadist inmates who would want to cut my Kufr throat (in either place), I would take Gitmo without a second thought; and,

IV. It's a shame that the Left has focused so much misplaced energy and capital in trying to prove that Gitmo and CIA overseas interrogation are secretly Treblinka. Abuses and atrocities are, regrettably and rarely, committed by our side in cases like Abu Ghraib and Haditha, and a decent, principled Left would have saved its outrage for these cases when it counted, and thus acted as a conscience to check our worst martial impulses. Instead, their cries of "torture!" and "Gulag!" have faded into one long undifferentiated drone that lulls us to sleep instead of waking us up.

The Left has cried nothing but Wolf since the war started, and it's hard to take their outrage seriously anymore, if we ever did.

UPDATE: Patterico goes the Full Monty, and makes a good point:

If we’re worried about the perception of our actions overseas, as the Left claims to be, why isn’t the Left equally (if not more) responsible for that perception, due to their constant exaggeration of our interrogation practices?