{"id":705,"date":"2004-05-19T01:33:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T08:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/05\/of_tribunals_and_failure\/"},"modified":"2004-05-19T01:33:31","modified_gmt":"2004-05-19T08:33:31","slug":"of_tribunals_and_failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/05\/of_tribunals_and_failure.html","title":{"rendered":"OF TRIBUNALS AND FAILURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Mark Danner speaks for us in <A class=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/17150\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;Torture and<br \/>\nTruth,&#8221;<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> his ruminations in the current issue of The New York Review<br \/>\nof Books on the &#8220;Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade&#8221; by Maj. Gen.<br \/>\nAntonio M. Taguba and the &#8220;Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on the<br \/>\nTreatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of War and Other Protected Persons by the<br \/>\nGeneva Conventions in Iraq During Arrest, Internment and Interrogation by Delegates of the<br \/>\nInternational Committee of the Red Cross&#8221;: <\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Many of the young Americans smiling back at us in the [Abu Ghraib]<br \/>\nphotographs will soon be on trial. It is unlikely that those who ran &#8220;the process&#8221; and issued the<br \/>\norders will face the same tribunals. Iraqis will be well aware of this, even if Americans are not.<br \/>\nThe question is whether Americans have traveled far enough from the events of September 11 to<br \/>\ngo beyond the photographs, which show nothing more than the amateur stooges of &#8220;the process,&#8221;<br \/>\nand look squarely at the process itself, the process that goes on daily at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo,<br \/>\nBagram, and other secret prisons in Iraq and around the world.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P>Ahmed Rashid also speaks for us in <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/17114\" target='new\"'><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>&#8220;The Rise of bin Laden,&#8221;<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> his review of &#8220;<A\nclass=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1594200076\/qid=1084930220\/sr=2-1\/ref=sr_2\n_1\/102-0994029-4919306\" target='new\"'><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>Ghost<br \/>\nWars<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden,<br \/>\nfrom the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001,&#8221; in the previous issue of NYRB:<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>What successive U.S. administrations could have done to prevent September<br \/>\n11 will always be debatable; perhaps the failure of intelligence to anticipate it is ultimately<br \/>\nunderstandable, in view of the ponderous workings of bureaucracies. What is unforgivable is the<br \/>\nfailure of the current U.S. administration to maintain the resources and manpower needed to<br \/>\nrebuild Afghanistan and to arrest bin Laden after September 11, and its decision to go to war in<br \/>\nIraq instead.<\/BLOCQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Danner speaks for us in &#8220;Torture and Truth,&#8221; his ruminations in the current issue of The New York Review of Books on the &#8220;Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade&#8221; by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. 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