The lead story in this morning’s New York Times is headlined, “TOUGH U.S. STEPS IN HUNGER STRIKE IN CAMP IN CUBA.” The first subheading is “FORCE-FEEDING DETAINEES,” and the second subheading is “Steps to Avert a Death — Lawyers for Prisoners Protest Treatment.” It seems the latest American outrage is that U.S. forces at Guantanamo Bay are feeding prisoners who are determined to commit suicide through a hunger strike. This sometimes involves restraining prisoners so that they can be nourished. The Pentagon is concerned, the Times reports, that “the death of one or more prisoners could intensify international criticism of the prison.” So the U.S. military is making sure that the prisoners do not die. But now, it appears, keeping prisoners alive might also intensify international criticism of the prison; a lawyer for one of the detainees calls it “a disgrace.”