Congress cracks some rules on the GWOT's Dirty Harry
■"Senate Moves to Protect Military Prisoners Despite Veto Threat," by Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 6 October 2005, p. A24.
Referencing my Feb piece for Wired, this is good stuff from the Senate. It's exactly what it's supposed to do. I expect the Bush administration to play it as rough and off-line as possible, but I expect the Senate to do its job and take the longer view about what our best interests are.
Lamar Alexander put it best, when "questioned why the White House would oppose a measure that codifies military procedures, and reaffirms a ban against torturing detainees. "It is time for Congress, which represents the people, to clarify and set the rules for detention and interrogation of our enemies."
Exactly.
Rein in the Dirty Harry. Over time, his behavior simply cannot be tolerated if we want wider acceptance of our fundamental strategies and rule sets for winning a global war on terrorism. Remember, a rule-set population of one is bupkis, aka "unilateralism."