We don’t quite know where Obama is going to go ultimately on the detention and interrogation of captured terrorists. He has left himself wiggle room, as we point out in an editorial that will be posted soon, to close Gitmo but preserve its essential function and to revive interrogation policies outside the strictures of the Army Field Manual as needed. If this is what Obama does–and I hope it is–he will have executed an admirably cold-blooded maneuver. He will have taken symbolic steps to end one of the most controversial aspects of Bush’s war paradigm–thus getting the world off our backs and placating a noisy domestic constituency–while reviving them in a form that won’t kick up such a fuss. A little hypocritical? Sure. Straight-forward? No. But perhaps quite effective (again, if this is what Obama ultimately does.)