Capt. Ian Fishback is the latest hero of critics of the U.S. treatment of prisoners in the Terror War.

* Capt. Ian Fishback is the latest hero of critics of the U.S. treatment of prisoners in the Terror War. Fishback claims he witnessed the routine abuse of prisoners near Fallujah. If this allegation is credible, it should be investigated and any acts of abuse punished. Abusing prisoners is wrong, illegal, counterproductive, and un-American. (As early as the Revolution, our leaders had determined their cause would be identified with the humane treatment of captured combatants.) Fishback also claims that he couldn't get a straight answer for 17 months from the chain-of-command on how prisoners should be treated. This is hard to believe, and even if he heard conflicting analyses of the finer points of the administration's reading of the Geneva Convention, no one ever would have thought that breaking prisoners' legs--as Fishback said happened--was permitted. Fishback and many of his supporters want to argue that the administration somehow approved torture, and acts of abuse out in the field, as a matter of policy. Numerous investigations and reports have found this to be false. Does Fishback have any evidence to the contrary?