Unfortunately, whichever you want, the dark recesses of my mind are winning out:
To put it bluntly, to someone pro-torture, the Israeli is right to sleep soundly at night. The Brit says it all, we're failing because we don't have the will "to do what is necessary."
And the American? He is soft. No doubt in fact they would use some feminine term intended to be derogatory.
You can read as much in the writing of Mark Steyn and others from the US right on the issue.
Is that the purpose of the article? Difficult to say. I wrote a whole philosophical paragraph on the relationship between "witness evidence" and "narrative" but I deleted it as I don't think it helps.
I think it is fair to say, that this report sits squarely in the territory of "We report, you decide..."