War Criminal

Color me jaded.

A Day in The Life - mine

"I read the news today, oh boy;" the lede article in the NY Times was about the fact that we torture. I admire Andrew Sullivan for his willingness to put up with all the opprobrium he'll endure from the right  - condemning him for quite accurately calling Bush a war criminal.

Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard has an infantile response to Sullivan in which he sides with the ever odious Crittendon's argument that since we're not drilling holes in people's heads, it's not a problem. This argument is so insulting to America, that we're not as bad as the lowest scum on the earth, that it never fails to depress me. He also accuses Sullivan of trivializing the concept of a war criminal. His evidence?

A quick search of Sullivan's blog for "war criminal" turns up 34 hits, all of them referring to members of the Bush administration.

If 34 hits trivializes an issue, what do 466 hits do? That's how often The Weekly Standard has written of torture.

Sullivan is right to be outraged that we torture. Sadly I'm losing the ability to muster the energy to be outraged. The fact that we torture is no longer a news flash. It's what we do.

(memeorandum)

 

Comments

[daveinboca]

You seem to reside in some ivory tower somewhere. Have you ever lived and tried to operate in the Middle East? I've lived in three countries, speak excellent Arabic & read it better.

Your sophomoric post insults real Americans like Crittendon & Goldfarb and praises obnoxious little Boy George wannabes like Sullivan & yourself.

[bbbustard]

Thanks for reading. It's great that you can define who is a real American. I guess the General who was at war, and wrote to the enemy general that "Not only your Officers, and Soldiers have been treated with a Tenderness due to Fellow Citizens, & Brethren; but even those execrable Parricides [traitors] whose Counsels & Aid have deluged their Country with Blood, have been protected from the Fury of a justly enraged People."
He's not just talking Soldiers either - he's also talking traitors who deluged the country in blood. That little Boy George Wannabe was of course George Washington, and he wrote this Aug 19, 1775. But then you and your beloved Boy George Bush know better.