Logic and Islamist terrorists

Winds of Change cites a piece by Diana West on our treatment of prisoners at Gitmo.

"Under Islamic law, non-Muslims are deemed unfit to touch the Quran. That much is generally known. What is not usually considered is the reason: According to the Islamic law, we are unclean. <snip> In effect, then, with its official policy of clean cloves and detainee towels, the United States military is promoting, enabling and accepting the Islamic concept of najis - the unclean infidel - a barbarous notion that has helped fuel the bloodlust of jihad and the non-Muslim subjugation of dhimmitude. Our soldiers are many things: self-sacrificing, bold, loyal and true. They are not unclean.

James Taranto of the Wall St. Journal foolishly calls this "magnanimity." Tell me, if we capture Aryan Nations tarrorists, will black troops all have to say "yas massah" to them, avoid making eye contact, and refuse to touch them - in the name of magnanimity?

Ronald Reagan once stated that he could end the cold war instantly. All he had to do was surrender. If we decide to base our decisions on what would make the prisoners (and their associates and leaders) happy, all we have to do is let them out of our prisons, and place ourselves in them.If the objective is to get along, this would do it.