HuffPost, Justin Raimondo: Our Freedom Tower and Theirs

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The idea that the Ground Zero memorial is being “hijacked” by a bunch of left-wing “prograndists” is itself propaganda. Michael Smerconish echoes the complaint of one Debra Burlingame, who doesn’t like it that “the people who are going to run this building are the same people who are suing Don Rumsfeld over the Abu Ghraib/Guantanemo stuff.”


Yeah, that’s what Abu Ghraib is, Debra – “stuff.” Not a moral obscenity. Not shameful. Not un-American. Just “stuff.”


But you know what, Debbie – and Michael – in America we get to sue government “leaders,” albeit not in all cases. We can take them to court and demand that they explain themselves: they must answer to us. And why shouldn’t they have to? A few lower-echelon grunts get punished for the horrific crimes committed at Abu Ghraib, and no one takes responsibility: Three cheers for Human Rights First and the ACLU for trying to get to the bottom of it.


I, too, get impatient with obligatory political correctness, but there are worse ways to commemorate the 9/11 terrorist attacks than by reflecting on man’s inhumanity to man. Ms. Burlingame talks about the message of “peace through understanding” as if it was the Communist Manifesto. What message, then, would she suggest? Perpetual war for perpetual peace? Would she prefer "Faster, pussycat: Kill! Kill!"?


Mr. Smerconish has a suggestion: let’s build a monument to the idea that “radical Islam” – not Al Qaeda – is the enemy, an idea that Osama bin Laden will no doubt find agreeable. After all, Al Qaeda’s ideology is marginal even within what we might describe as “radical Islam, and bin Laden will no doubt rejoice to hear that he’s now considered more mainstream.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/justin-raimondo/our-freedom-tower-and-th_2495.html

Goddamn, this guy is sharp.

[Book Lover]

1. He runs antiwar.com

and is an independant libertarian. I go to his site more than once a day, myself.