NATO and Detainees

Don Bosco writes in tomorrow’s Washington Post that NATO needs to take more responsibility in Afghanistan for capturing, detaining and obtaining intelligence from detainees.

Rather than leaving the handling of detainees to the United States, because it’s willing to get its hands dirty, or to Afghan forces, because they’re nominally in control of the country, NATO should get involved to show American forces how, in concrete ways, detainee operations and intelligence gathering can be successful without engage in the worst of America’s excesses.

If that’s not possible, maybe the rest of the West will have to admit that the way the United States and Israel handle enemy prisoners is more reasonable than they have claimed to date.