Markos Gains The Moral Bilgewater
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I think of Markos as a shrewd latter-day dot-com entrepreneur trying to exploit progressives (actually, it’s more like he’s successfully exploiting progressives). But then I saw Monday’s Midday open thread, and started to think that his dot-com success must be pure luck, because he’s clearly prone to sticking his foot in his mouth. It pains me to point out the same thing that Little Green Footballs did, but lest it be forgotten amidst all the “Ko$ola” accusations swirling around (which I might comment about later) this bit of Kos wisdom deserves to be highlighted again:
“Barbaric torture”. There’s a reason the Geneva Conventions exist. We’ve lost the moral high ground. What a (bleep)ing waste of a war.
I won’t talk about the square-peg-in-round-hole attempt to spin the deaths of those two missing soldiers into a critique of the Bush administration (Kos spins everything into a critique of the Bush administration — he can’t help himself. “Today it rained… and Bush failed to stop it!”) And I won’t discuss whether or not the (misnamed) “war” is a waste. Rather, I’d like to discuss his attempt to conflate the U.S. military’s and Al Qaeda’s treatment of prisoners, because the torture “controversy” is still a pet peeve of mine.
Yes, believe it or not, in Kos’s mind, we treat Al Qaeda prisoners exactly the same as Al Qaeda treats Amercian prisoners, and the latest incident with those two missing soldiers proves it to him. I’ll let that sink in for a moment.
How can anyone, liberal or not, actually believe that?? It boggles the mind. Drawing a moral equivalence between “stress positions” and “waterboarding” and what happened to those two missing American soldiers over the weekend, which was apparently so bad that even the mighty media can’t find out the details, can only have two possible motives: Complete ignorance or wanton propaganda. Either of those reasons is good enough for any reasonable person to throw Kos back into the Internet bilge of irrelevance.
Next Kos will be saying that Al Qaeda actually treats prisoners better than the U.S. military, because they torture and kill and desecrate their prisoners within a few days, instead of making prisoners endure the nightmare of a Gitmo cell, regular meals, and medical attention for years on end. Perhaps soon after that we’ll start seeing Al Qaeda advertise on Daily Kos. “For Kossites only: Special deals on martyrdom and dhimmitude! Get yours today!”
“Lost the moral high ground” indeed. Sheesh.
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