Last week I questioned, very facetiously, whether treatment of al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay included pies and banana peels. The left has made another swan dive into self-parody with a Time magazine commentary noting guards performing a "puppet show 'satirizing [a] detainee's involvement with al-Qaeda.'"

Moral cowardice along the boundary between left and right, found abundantly among timid congressmen, is the only instrument capable of politically damaging the Bush administration on wartime detention policy. How can a majority of the American public grow angry over anything other than the use of taxpayer funds to grant terrorists and their accessories more cultural and personal consideration than felons in Auburn, New York? The left, on this tack, is its own disputant. James Lileks, who curiously enough went straight to Monty Python when confronted with absurdity, too, has more.