Paul Marshall writes in National Review Online that “Even if Newsweek publishes a full retraction, the damage is done”:
Much of the Muslim world will regard [a retraction] merely as a cover-up and feel reconfirmed in the view that America is at war with Islam. It will undercut the U.S., including in Afghanistan and Iraq, far more than Abu Ghraib did.
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