Winning is losing

is the wapo becoming a no-spin zone... ? probably not, although it's nice to see an occasional outbreak of un-spun perspective...

• Congress has allowed itself to be stampeded into a vote on hastily written but far-reaching legal provisions

• [T]here is no need for Congress to act immediately

• Without [an amendment], the Bush administration's abuse of detainees is likely to continue

• [I]t would set a dangerous precedent for other nations

• [T]heir actions almost surely will come back to haunt them

so, what should be done...?

What's important is that any legal system approved by Congress pass the tests set by Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.) months ago: that the United States can be proud of it, that the world will see it as fair and humane, and that the Supreme Court can uphold it.

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Until this country adopts a legal system for the war on terrorism that meets Mr. Warner's standard, the war itself will be unwinnable.

< sigh > hopefully, one of these days, sooner rather than later, the wapo - and the rest of the country - will wake up to the fact that "WINNING" is not now nor has it ever been the objective... given the bushco agenda of remolding a free, democratic republic into a totalitarian state, winning is losing...

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