DERBYSHIRE AND GRANER

National Review’s beloved John Derbyshire believes that Charles Graner’s ten-year sentence for serially beating up inmates to unconsciousness, overseeing rapes, forcing inmates to simulate sex acts, and all the other horrors I detailed this weekend in the New York Times, is “totally outrageous.” He favors a 30-day smack on the wrist. That kind of sentence amounts to an endorsement of Abu Ghraib. But then Derbyshire, at the time, wanted to join in. “Kick one for me.” Remember that NRO sees itself as a repository of “moral values.” One of those values, for one of its contributors, is a defense of Charles Graner.