Why not grab the wives, they're just extensions of their husbands anyway

Amanda makes a very good point about why the Bush Administration thinks that seizing the wives of insurgents as a tactic to get them to surrender is perfectly OK:

While I’m sure it’s all thrilling in neocon dreams to have romantic plots where one’s enemy is defeated because you exploit his foolish love for a mere woman, in real life once you open up the door to treating women’s bodies as strategic weapons against the enemy, you’re opening yourself up to moving onto the next level of war atrocities.

Of course, this is the administration that is about to appoint Strip Search Sammy, who argued that women should be required to tell their husbands about getting an abortion. In the BushCo worldview, women aren’t people with minds of our own that are responsible for ourselves. We’re just extensions of men, available to be seized as property in order to punish them.