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SULLIED

Andrew Sullivan is doing the old in and out.

He quit his blogging and turned a lot of it over to others.

I didn't like the others.

Then he took the others off and, except for a few items a week, he took off himself.

Now he is back at about half the volume he was before.

As before, I agree with about half of his stuff.

Half of half is a quarter or something like that.

Anyway, he is back on my links-list at the right.

Doing the old in and out and in again.

Today he has a good example of the kind of writing that I enjoy reading. It makes me think.

THE SPIN ON TORTURE: It has gone chronologically something like this: "It's not true. It's not true. It may be true but it's not torture. Okay, it's torture, but isn't official policy. It may be true and official policy, but we changed the policy and we uncovered the abuses ourselves. It may be true, it may have been widespread, but we've punished the culprits. It may be true, it may have been widespread, it may still be happening, but all these reports are old news." Well, give these guys points for effort. How about: it is true; it should never have happened; the people responsible for the policy as well as the criminals should be punished. Ah, but that would mean taking responsibility, wouldn't it? And we don't do that in this administration, do we? Even at the expense of hurting the war effort and staining the reputation of countless great soldiers in a noble cause.