The front page photo on the print edition of the New York Times (10/18/06) is worth some study and reflection. Bush has signed the bill for interogating and trying unlawful combants. What are these witnesses thinking? Embarassed? Solemnly looking forward to the interrogations that will find the "ticking" bomb? Worry that they might find themselves hauled off to The Hague?

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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