Keeping up with the Joneses

[pecunium]

A bunch of the Glenn Reynolds types are all up in arms, because people who oppose the U.S. using torture aren't all up in arms that Al Qaeda in Iraq endorses it.

Well, that's not news. Al Qaeda (in Iraq, and everywhere else) is a bunch of terrorists.

I don't think we should be measuring ourselves against them; as if they were the benchmark of civilisation.

Then again, maybe the pearl clutchers of the world did learn everything they needed to know in kindergarten, "but Jimmy hit me too," can be be heard in defense on any playground, anywhere.

The grown-ups, however, tend to dismiss it.

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[sinboy.livejournal.com]

A bunch of the Glenn Reynolds types are all up in arms, because people who oppose the U.S. using torture aren't all up in arms that Al Qaeda in Iraq endorses it.

Ooh. Which ones?

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Reynolds ("silence = complicity) which is pretty funny, since he thinks torture is ok, so long as it's done to "them". Somehow "them" doing it to people (esp. "us") is bad, but us doing it to "them is good.

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I am sure Malkin will have something up soon.

My favorite piece of "criticism" of the failings of the media to report this was in a comment at Balloon Juice.

I’ll bet that if the President sodomized a nun, the left-leaning media would be out in front of reporting that, even though it suppressed the fact that the Clenis engaged in consensual sexual activity with an intern.

To which the only reply worth making was made,

Demi- Wow! How to respond? First, I love how sodomizing a nun is, to you, the equivalent to consensual sex with a young woman. Second, the fact that every person in the world knows about Clinton and Monica must have obscured for me that fact that this information was suppressed.

TK