Andy is right to pick on that point, and I stand corrected. The Abu Ghraib

offenses were not utterly unconnected with interrogation. But the

connection was, as Andy says, at one remove. I.e. what you see in those

photographs is not interrogations taking place, but a bunch of idiots

misbehaving after hours under the impression (true or not remains to be

determined) that U.S. interrogators and their superiors would turn a blind

eye.

I’ll say what I said before, a little more precisely: What you are seeing

in the Abu Ghraib photographs is (a) not torture in any way I (let alone the

average inhabitant of the average Arab country!) understand, and (b) not

interrogations taking place.