Rumsfeld Signs Up

Glad to see our Secretary of Defense is reading ComingAnarchy.com as part of his morning briefings. Here’s what he said the day after I posted this on Amnesty International’s “Gulag Gitmo” report:

Most would define a gulag as where the Soviet Union kept millions in forced-labor concentration camps, or I suppose some might say where Saddam Hussein mutilated and murdered untold numbers because they held views unacceptable to his regime… To compare the United States and Guantanamo Bay to such atrocities cannot be excused.

Picking up from Nathan’s comment about a “carnival barker“:

Free societies depend on oversight and they welcome informed criticism, particularly on human rights issues. But those who make such outlandish charges lose any claim to objectivity or seriousness.

And a comment on the state of our current media:

Two of the country’s largest newspapers, for example, have devoted more than 80 editorials combined since March of 2004 to Abu Ghraib and detainee issues, often repeating the same erroneous assertions and recycling the same stories. By comparison, precious little has been written by those editorial boards about the beheading of innocent civilians by terrorists, the thousands of bodies found in mass graves in Iraq or the allegations of rape of women and girls by U.N. workers in the Congo.

Preach it.