LOSING THE MORAL HIGH GROUND LOSING THE MORAL HIGH GROUND of "salon opinion". Charles Krauthammer wrote:

Too bad. Right now, what is of supreme importance to Americans is not the moral high ground of salon opinion but the strategic high ground of military intelligence -- the advantage we gain in combating terror with the knowledge we glean from these prisoners. The world loves us, bleeding and suffering nobly, at the moral high ground of Ground Zero. To which we say: no thank you. Our paramount national duty today is to prevent another Sept. 11, not to glory in the moral high ground -- the moral vanity -- of the victimhood we suffered last Sept. 11.

The real mischief done by European "salon opinion" this time 'round was its immediate and complete conflation of legitimate and necessary debate - about the Geneva Convention and the definition of PoWs - with hysterical slander about the abuse of prisoners. They've behaved disgracefully, but I'm sure they can still find a way to blame it all on Rumsfeld's tart tongue.
Posted by Moira Breen at January 25, 2002 09:15 AM