{"id":1551,"date":"2007-10-14T13:51:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/10\/14\/nytimes-opinion\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:08:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:08:39","slug":"nytimes-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/10\/14\/nytimes-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/14\/opinion\/14rich2.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;oref=slogin\"><nyt_headline version=\"1.0\" type=\" \">The \u2018Good Germans\u2019 Among Us <\/nyt_headline><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/JavaScript\">function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1350014400&en=c1d4748a3ecfdc32&ei=5124';}<\/script> <script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/JavaScript\"> function getShareURL() { \treturn encodeURIComponent('http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/14\/opinion\/14rich2.html'); } function getShareHeadline() { \treturn encodeURIComponent('The &#8216;Good Germans&#8217; Among Us'); } function getShareDescription() {   \treturn encodeURIComponent('Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in the Iraq war. The longer we stand idly by, the more we resemble the &#8220;good Germans.&#8221;'); } function getShareKeywords() { \treturn encodeURIComponent('United States Armament and Defense,United States Politics and Government,Iraq,Gestapo'); } function getShareSection() { \treturn encodeURIComponent('opinion'); } function getShareSectionDisplay() {  \treturn encodeURIComponent('Op-Ed Columnist'); } function getShareSubSection() { \treturn encodeURIComponent(''); } function getShareByline() { \treturn encodeURIComponent('By FRANK RICH'); } function getSharePubdate() { \treturn encodeURIComponent('October 14, 2007'); } <\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"toolsRight\">\n<p class=\"articleTools\">\n<p class=\"toolsContainer\">\n<script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\">writePost()<\/script><\/p>\n<p><nyt_byline version=\"1.0\" type=\" \"> <\/nyt_byline><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">By FRANK RICH<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\">Published: October 14, 2007<\/p>\n<p><!--NYT_INLINE_IMAGE_POSITION1 -->      <nyt_text>   \t <\/nyt_text> \u201cBUSH lies\u201d doesn\u2019t cut it anymore. It\u2019s time to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"secondParagraph\"><\/a>Ten days ago The Times unearthed yet another round of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/04\/washington\/04interrogate.html\">secret Department of Justice memos<\/a> countenancing torture. President Bush gave his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2007\/10\/20071005-2.html\">standard response<\/a>: \u201cThis government does not torture people.\u201d Of course, it all depends on what the meaning of \u201ctorture\u201d is. The whole point of these memos is to repeatedly recalibrate the definition so Mr. Bush can keep pleading innocent.<\/p>\n<p>By any legal standards except those rubber-stamped by Alberto Gonzales, we are practicing torture, and we have known we are doing so ever since photographic proof emerged from Abu Ghraib more than three years ago. As Andrew Sullivan, once a Bush cheerleader, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/andrew_sullivan\/article2602564.ece\">observed last weekend<\/a> in The Sunday Times of London, America\u2019s \u201cenhanced interrogation\u201d techniques have a grotesque provenance: \u201cVersch\u00e4rfte Vernehmung, enhanced or intensified interrogation, was the exact term innovated by the Gestapo to describe what became known as the \u2018third degree.\u2019 It left no marks. It included hypothermia, stress positions and long-time sleep deprivation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, the drill remains the same. The administration gives its alibi (Abu Ghraib was just a few bad apples). A few members of Congress squawk. The debate is labeled \u201cpolitics.\u201d We turn the page.<\/p>\n<p>There has been scarcely more response to the similarly recurrent story of apparent war crimes committed by our contractors in Iraq. Call me cynical, but when Laura Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2007-10-09-laura-bush_N.htm\">spoke up last week<\/a> about the human rights atrocities in Burma, it seemed less an act of selfless humanitarianism than another administration maneuver to change the subject from its own abuses.<\/p>\n<p>As Mrs. Bush spoke, two women, both Armenian Christians, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/10\/world\/middleeast\/10iraq.html\">were gunned down in Baghdad<\/a> by contractors underwritten by American taxpayers. On this matter, the White House has been silent. That incident followed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/18\/world\/middleeast\/18iraq.html\">Sept. 16 massacre<\/a> in Baghdad\u2019s Nisour Square, where 17 Iraqis were killed by security forces from Blackwater USA, which had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/02\/washington\/02blackwater.html\">already been implicated<\/a> in nearly 200 other shooting incidents since 2005. There has been no accountability. The State Department, Blackwater\u2019s sugar daddy for most of its<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/09\/25\/AR2007092502675.html\"> billion dollars in contracts<\/a>, won\u2019t even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/11\/world\/middleeast\/11blackwater.html\">share its investigative findings<\/a> with the United States military and the Iraqi government, both of which have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/11\/AR2007101101030.html\">deemed the killings criminal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen who mowed down the two Christian women worked for a Dubai-based company managed by Australians, registered in Singapore and enlisted as a subcontractor by an American contractor headquartered in North Carolina. This is a plot out of \u201cSyriana\u201d by way of \u201cChinatown.\u201d There will be no trial. We will never find out what happened. A new bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/04\/AR2007100400282.html\">passed by the House<\/a> to regulate contractor behavior will have little effect, even if it becomes law in its current form.<\/p>\n<p>We can continue to blame the Bush administration for the horrors of Iraq \u2014 and should. Paul Bremer, our post-invasion viceroy and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/12\/20041214-3.html\">recipient<\/a> of a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his efforts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/11\/world\/middleeast\/11legal.html\">issued the order<\/a> that allows contractors to elude Iraqi law, a folly second only to his disbanding of the Iraqi Army. But we must also examine our own responsibility for the hideous acts committed in our name in a war where we have now fought longer than we did in the one that put Versch\u00e4rfte Vernehmung on the map.<\/p>\n<p>I have always maintained that the American public was the least culpable of the players during the run-up to Iraq. The war was sold by a brilliant and fear-fueled White House propaganda campaign designed to stampede a nation still shellshocked by 9\/11. Both Congress and the press \u2014 the powerful institutions that should have provided the checks, balances and due diligence of the administration\u2019s case \u2014 failed to do their job. Had they done so, more Americans might have raised more objections. This perfect storm of democratic failure began at the top.<\/p>\n<p>As the war has dragged on, it is hard to give Americans en masse a pass. We are too slow to notice, let alone protest, the calamities that have followed the original sin.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2004, Stars and Stripes <a href=\"http:\/\/stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=21007&amp;archive=true\">first reported<\/a> that our troops were using makeshift vehicle armor fashioned out of sandbags, yet when a soldier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/08\/international\/middleeast\/08cnd-rumsfeld.html\">complained<\/a> to Donald Rumsfeld at a town meeting in Kuwait eight months later, he was successfully pilloried by the right. Proper armor procurement lagged for months more to come. Not until early this year, four years after the war\u2019s first casualties, did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/17\/AR2007021701172.html\">a Washington Post investigation<\/a> finally focus the country\u2019s attention on the shoddy treatment of veterans, many of them victims of inadequate armor, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other military hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>We first learned of the use of contractors as mercenaries when four Blackwater employees were <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9E06E4DC1539F932A35757C0A9629C8B63\">strung up<\/a> in Falluja in March 2004, just weeks before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2004\/05\/03\/slideshow_040503\">first torture photos<\/a> emerged from Abu Ghraib. We asked few questions. When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/front\/story\/626324.html\">reports surfaced<\/a> early this summer that our contractors in Iraq (180,000, of whom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,,2138917,00.html\">some 48,000<\/a> are believed to be security personnel) now outnumber our postsurge troop strength, we yawned. Contractor casualties and contractor-inflicted casualties are kept off the books.<\/p>\n<p>It was always the White House\u2019s plan to coax us into a blissful ignorance about the war. Part of this was achieved with the usual Bush-Cheney secretiveness, from the torture memos to the prohibition of photos of military coffins. But the administration also invited our passive complicity by requiring no shared sacrifice. A country that knows there\u2019s no such thing as a free lunch was all too easily persuaded there could be a free war.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of taxing us for Iraq, the White House bought us off with tax cuts. Instead of mobilizing the needed troops, it kept a draft off the table by quietly purchasing its auxiliary army of contractors to finesse the overstretched military\u2019s holes. With the war\u2019s entire weight falling on a small voluntary force, amounting to less than 1 percent of the population, the rest of us were free to look the other way at whatever went down in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>We ignored the contractor scandal to our own peril. Ever since Falluja this auxiliary army has been a leading indicator of every element of the war\u2019s failure: not only our inadequate troop strength but also our alienation of Iraqi hearts and minds and our rampant outsourcing to contractors rife with Bush-Cheney cronies and campaign contributors. Contractors remain a bellwether of the war\u2019s progress today. When Blackwater was <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jSQ14PoKO8jjCLmzfdzIzty14Ijw\">briefly suspended<\/a> after the Nisour Square catastrophe, American diplomats were flatly forbidden from leaving the fortified Green Zone. So much for the surge\u2019s great \u201csuccess\u201d in bringing security to Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Paul Rieckhoff, an Iraq war combat veteran who directs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iava.org\/\">Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America<\/a>, sketched for me the apocalypse to come. Should Baghdad implode, our contractors, not having to answer to the military chain of command, can simply \u201cdrop their guns and go home.\u201d Vulnerable American troops could be deserted by those \u201cwho deliver their bullets and beans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This potential scenario is just one example of why it\u2019s in our national self-interest to attend to Iraq policy the White House counts on us to ignore. Our national character is on the line too. The extralegal contractors are both a slap at the sovereignty of the self-governing Iraq we supposedly support and an insult to those in uniform receiving as little as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/09\/30\/AR2007093001352.html\">one-sixth the pay<\/a>. Yet it took mass death in Nisour Square to fix even our fleeting attention on this long-metastasizing cancer in our battle plan.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, it took until December 2005, two and a half years after \u201cMission Accomplished,\u201d for Mr. Bush to feel sufficient public pressure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2005-12-12-bush-iraq_x.htm\">acknowledge<\/a> the large number of Iraqi casualties in the war. Even now, despite his repeated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2007\/09\/20070903.html\">declaration<\/a> that \u201cAmerica will not abandon the Iraqi people,\u201d he has yet to address or intervene decisively in the tragedy of four million-plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/iraq.html\">Iraqi refugees<\/a>, a disproportionate number of them children. He feels no pressure from the American public to do so, but hey, he pays lip service to Darfur.<\/p>\n<p>Our moral trajectory over the Bush years could not be better dramatized than it was by a reunion of an elite group of two dozen World War II veterans in Washington this month. They were participants in a top-secret operation to interrogate some 4,000 Nazi prisoners of war. Until now, they have kept silent, but America\u2019s recent record prompted them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/05\/AR2007100502492.html\">talk to The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,\u201d said Henry Kolm, 90, an M.I.T. physicist whose interrogation of Rudolf Hess, Hitler\u2019s deputy, took place over a chessboard. George Frenkel, 87, recalled that he \u201cnever laid hands on anyone\u201d in his many interrogations, adding, \u201cI\u2019m proud to say I never compromised my humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those \u201cgood Germans\u201d who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo. It\u2019s up to us to wake up our somnambulant Congress to challenge administration policy every day. Let the war\u2019s last supporters filibuster all night if they want to. There is nothing left to lose except whatever remains of our country\u2019s good name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The \u2018Good Germans\u2019 Among Us By FRANK RICH Published: October 14, 2007 \u201cBUSH lies\u201d doesn\u2019t cut it anymore. It\u2019s time to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves. Ten days ago The Times unearthed yet another round of secret Department of Justice memos countenancing torture. 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