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The best part about our Torture Offsets is that they alleviate leftist guilt about what’s being done to all the poor Johnny Jihads down in Gitmo while not actually doing anything to free them. Added bonus: by contributing to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, they also drain away money that may have gone to more viable Democrat candidates.
From a Daily Kos post meditating on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University (h/t LGF):
I know I’m a Jewish lesbian and he’d probably have me killed. But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me swoon…
[...] I want to be very clear. There are certainly many things about Ahmadinejad that I abhor — locking up dissidents, executing of gay folks, denying the fact of the Holocaust, potentially adding another dangerous nuclear power to the world and, in general, stifling democracy. Even still, I can’t help but be turned on by his frank rhetoric calling out the horrors of the Bush Administration and, for that matter, generations of US foreign policy preceding.
She later claimed it was satire, but I think we all know better. Anyway, it’s not like she was the only one impressed by Ahmadinejad.
The left anymore is putting a lot of stock in the idea that the enemy (Iran and Islamists in general) of their enemy (Bush) is their friend. This in spite of the fact that they know the former would gladly slit their useful idiot throats.
Update 9/28/07 at 9:55am: Jonah Goldberg this morning has a terrific essay on A’jad’s Columbia visit, free speech, and cowardice masking as principle. Ed Morrissey expands on Goldberg’s essay here. Key point:
Freedom of speech does not confer upon anyone the right to be published. Nor does it impose on other citizens the duty to listen or to acknowledge the speech. Most importantly, it does not grant an immunity from criticism for the speech one gives — because that would also constrain free speech.
One would think this obvious. But since so many universities and editorial writers keep insisting that every tyrant and crackpot with an America-hating chip on his shoulder is entitled to a forum, it’s a point worth repeating.
Yes, General Petraeus’s testimony before Congress was nearly two weeks ago, so we’re more behind on this than we’d prefer. On the other hand, thanks to the revelation that the New York Times gave MoveOn.org a family discount of 60% on the latter’s full-page “General Betray Us” ad, the strip gets grandfathered in as timely.
Bonus Schadenfreude as the NYT’s ad discount looks an awful lot like an in-kind political contribution, despite their constant and shrill support for campaign finance reform.
No strip today – just a moment of silence here at ARR to mark 9/11.
The NYT’s “A Nation Challenged” archive is here for a look at where we were in the days immediately after. Robert Spencer has a depressing post on where we find ourselves now (h/t Hot Air), and Malkin has links on Resistance and Remembrance.
Perhaps symbolic of an era when the country wonders whether it’s time to start scaling back 9/11 remembrances, the 9/11 Digital Archive (by no means a fringe project– it’s partnered with the Library of Congress) has a collection of 9/11 stories contributed by the Council of American-Islamic Relations. CAIR is better know to some as an unindicted unindicted co-conspirator in as “participants in an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas.”
CAIR should have reviewed their talking points better here: one of their contributors helpfully offered that upon seeing the attacks, “my first thought was ‘ O’Allah, please don’t let Islam suffer from this…’” If the writer ever thought about the Americans and foreign nationals burned in those towers, at the Pentagon, or in a Pennsylvania field that day, he doesn’t bother to mention it.
