John Cole just made my blogroll. Now I don't expect that this will impress John very much, as his is one of the Right's Powerblogs, but Damn if the man has not earned my respect. Once again I find a post of his via Jack at Random Fate, and the post is a classic.

The fact of the matter is, we just don't know the whole story. And no matter what the blowhards and the administration apologists (and I used to be one) say, it isn't liberal ACLU pro-terrorist anti-military crazinesss to demand the facts and to demand that we behave better than we have in the past. It isn't anti-soldier to question policy and to demand that abuses and torture aren't being conducted under our flag, even if we benignly label them 'approved interrogation techniques.'

And one more thing- Dick Durbin didn't do anything wrong- he used some stupid rhetoric. He could have used a better example, and it was stupid to include regimes as murderous as the Khmer Rouge and the Nazis in that speech, even though he didn't compare our troops to those guys. But that doesn't give us any excuse to ignore his message.

Read John's whole post. It is an interesting contrast to those on the Right who have made Sen. Durbin's choice of words a bigger issue, than what is potentially disgraceful and illegal behaviour on the part of some serving in Gitmo.

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.grupo-utopia.com/blog/mt/mt-tb.cgi/328