Krauthammer gets it right.

In any case, the whole Rumsfeld debate is a sideshow. For
partisans it is a convenient way to get at the president. And for those
who have no partisan agenda but are shocked by the Abu Ghraib pictures,
it is a way to try to do something, anything, to deal with the moral
panic that has set in about the whole Iraq enterprise. This panic is
everywhere and now includes many who have been longtime supporters of
the war. The panic is unseemly. The pictures are shocking and the
practices appalling. But how do the actions of a few depraved soldiers
among 135,000 negate the moral purpose of the entire enterprise --
which has not only liberated 25 million people from 25 years of
genocidal dictatorship but has included a nationwide reconstruction
punctuated by hundreds, thousands, of individual acts of beneficence
and kindness by American soldiers? We are obsessing about the wrong
question. It is not: Is our purpose in Iraq morally sound? Of course it
is. The question today, as from the beginning, remains: Is that purpose
achievable?

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