Bury Me Broken

Zorn, Chicago Tribune, says what Durbin should have

"Durbin should have stood up for his opinion," says columnist Eric Zorn in this Chicago Tribune opinion piece:

"If anything I said caused you to believe that I was equating American soldiers with Nazis or equating American leaders with Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot, then you are an idiot."

I said nothing of the kind."

I said that our mistreatment of wartime prisoners is of the sort you'd expect to see in a brutal, totalitarian dictatorship, not in a nation that has long congratulated itself on its exceptionally high standards of liberty and law."

It's a troubling similarity. It's a warning that we're slipping.

Read the entire article. It is focused, precise and backboned.

posted by niteskolar @ 6:31 PM