When All Logic And Proportion Have Fallen Sloppy Dead»

Make it stop! No more Doug Feith. Satyam at ThinkProgress catches Feith using a line he’s been field-testing in War And Decision these days:

FEITH: We took an extremely strongly pro-Geneva Convention position in the Pentagon. And what I said when I briefed Secretary Rumsfeld on this, and briefed the President on it, is we have troops all over the world. There is no country in the world that has a stronger interest in promoting respect for the Geneva Conventions than the United States, and there’s no institution of the U.S. government that has a stronger interest in that than the Pentagon. … [T]hey are a part of the law of the United States, they’re treaties in force, and I thought the Pentagon had an extremely strong interest in promoting respect for the Geneva Conventions.

Violating the Geneva Conventions as a matter of policy: it’s the new “extremely pro-Geneva”! What Feith needs to recognize is that the effect his very existence has on the rest of us is in and of itself a Geneva violation.