NYT Uncovers More “Abuses” at Gitmo

These abuses include lap dances, getting perfume rubbed on their arms, a neck and shoulder massage, and whispering in the ear. And to think American men have to pay 100 bucks an hour for this kind of abuse.

Sounds like a Scrapple Face article, but it is an NYT Op-Ed. Granted that all of the above is very old news, but NYT feels the need to reframe it in the context of the American military and intelligence community “prostituting” its female members:

There are countless reasons to be outraged about the abuses of detainees at American military prisons. But there is one abuse about which there can surely be no debate, even among the die-hard supporters of President Bush: the exploitation and debasement of women serving in the United States military. This practice must come to an immediate end, and the Pentagon must make it clear that such things will never be tolerated again.

So the real question here is what does the NYT know about “die hard supporters of President Bush”? Ok, but seriously, lets be honest here. NYT’s real aim here is to embarrass the American military and the White House. They tried it by reporting so-called prisoner abuses, but the problem is that no one really cared how terrorists are being treated, save the terrorists, the Democratic party and Chuck Hagel.

So now they reframe the issue in a way that think will garner more sympathy. The problem is that this is not a forced prostituion camp, but rather trained professionals willing to do dirty deeds in the name of patriotism.

Karl Rove was right and Ace Of Spades sums it up best:

They're not serious. They are against war even in the most dire of circumstances, and they're against any of the dirtier parts of intelligence-gathering. They cannot come right out and admit they oppose war and covert operations on principle, so they simply object to every conceivable part of warfare or covert ops or interrogation in their details.

Then they can claim they are not reflexively anti-this or anti-that, they're just very outraged by this particular practice.

Trouble is, they're outraged by every particular practice of war or intelligence-gathering. It's like saying you have nothing against Western omelets, except you despise eggs, loath ham, destest green peppers, and find onions gob-smackingly vile.

And also-- you're not too crazy about the toast and orange juice they give you on the side. And that you frankly find toast and orange juice "unAmerican" and "contrary to the spirit of our living Constitution."Let's stop talking of eggs and ham and such and just admit you're anti-omelet.