Doing Their Dirty Work

How many of you were as excited to find out we were torturing or helping out the torture of China’s non-terrorist-but-oppressed Uighurs? That line about releasing all Uighurs despite their status as a dangerous threat is extra-rich, too: why release them if they’re “the worst of the worst,” as Rumsfeld called them? Why be afraid of sending them back to China if they’re threats? There is too much egg on too many faces here: one of Mr. Bush’s more galling legacies.