As usual, Mark Steyn, one of my favorite columnists, has a perfect take on the questionable Democratic Party Senator from Illinois, who rose in the Senate and spoke from on high, comparing—for all the world to hear—the Guantanamo prison to, well, you know—all those most evil things in modern world history. Of course the impression that is meant to be left—for all the world to hear—is that the current administration of President Bush and the Republicans is, well, the exact same thing as all those evil things.
What the left forgets is that it’s as much an insult to Republicans as it is to Americans, members of the military and their families, and the vicitims of all the actual atrocities of the world which includes the atrocity committed by those who now reside at Guantanamo Bay.
[…] One measure of a civilized society is that words mean something: “Soviet” and “Nazi” and “Pol Pot” cannot equate to Guantanamo unless you’re utterly unmoored from reality.
Spot the odd one out: (1) mass starvation, (2) gas chambers, (3) mountains of skulls, (4) lousy infidel pop music at full volume. One of these is not the same as the others, and Mr. Durbin doesn’t have the excuse of being some airhead celeb or an Ivy League professor. He’s the Senate Judiciary Committee’s second-ranking Democrat. Don’t they have an insanity clause?
[…] The senator from Illinois’ comparisons are as tired as they’re grotesque. They add nothing useful to the debate. But around the planet folks naturally figure that, if only 100 people out of nearly 300 million get to be senators, the position must be a big deal. Hence, headlines in the Arab world like “U.S. senator stands by Nazi remark.” That’s al Jazeera, where the senator from al-Inois is now a big hero—for slandering his own country, for confirming the lurid propaganda of its enemies. Yes, folks, American soldiers are Nazis and U.S. prison camps are gulags. Don’t take our word for it, Sen. Bigshot says so.
This isn’t a Republican versus Democrat thing; it’s about senior Democrats who are so over-invested in their hatred of a passing administration that they’ve signed on to the nuttiest slurs of the lunatic fringe.
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