Gosh Who Does This Sound Like
At the Nuremburg war crimes trials, Nazi sympathizers actually argued that the atrocities of Germany’s blueprinted Final Solution were no worse than some battlefield policies of the Allies. And throughout the ensuing Cold War, Marxist supporters in the press pitifully pointed to the United States internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as symmetrically contemptible to Stalin’s Hitler-exceeding mass murder.
Moral equivalence. What a joke. Its takes a whole bunch of nuance to make one side with moral equivalence.
Slight paraphrasing of Dan’s argument:
The US military is completely and totally identical to Al Qaeda.

March 27th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
“The US military is completely and totally identical to Al Qaeda.”
You’ve already conceded that point, so what’s the problem?
March 28th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Wow. You didn’t deny the characterization. Thats alarming.
March 29th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Wow. You didn’t deny the concession. That’s alarming.