Paul, I’d like to add a concern to yours and Noonan’s comments. What bothers me most about the photos I’ve seen is the gratuitous, malicious cruelty. I don’t see it as a case of “vengeance.” That’s an emotion that’s easier to understand, even though it still wouldn’t be exculpatory. What the photos I’ve seen suggest an enjoyment of the viciousness, not a retaliation. It’s almost comforting to be glib and suggest, as some do, that a bad day in Abu Ghraib under Americans is still better than a good day in Abu Ghraib under Saddam, but that’s blithely missing the point. Such behavior is intolerable to Americans. It’s deeply mortifying to us. But as Noonan said, “there’s now no way round it but through it. The best we can do is what we’ve done and had no choice but to do: Reveal these things for all the world to see. Redress, reform, repair, reprimand and remove.”