Gulag Island
Any left-winger who wants to criticize President Bush should do so only after thinking to him/herself "are my comments more likely to make me or the President look like a fool?"
Case in point: the recent Amnesty International report which compared the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Soviet Gulag. The President called this charge absurd, and he's absolutely right. The Gulag victimized (and killed) millions of innocent Soviet citizens, while the abuses (which I strongly oppose, just so there's no misunderstanding) at Guantanamo Bay have victimized, at most, a few hundred people. Not only isn't Guantanamo equivalent to the Gulag, it's not even the worst prison system on the island of Cuba!
So, in the end, because Amnesty International decided to sex-up its report with a ridiculous historical analogy, rather than drawing attention to U.S. abuses, the report only served to discredit opponents of President Bush. So once again, us moderate liberals get to sit around and watch as those to our left consistently undermine us with their immature antics.
4 comments:
Come on! Guantanamo is as bad as Auschwitz. You know it's true! You must just love President Bush!
No, no, no - you're getting your analogies mixed up. Guantanamo is equal to the Gulag. The Patriot Act is as bad as the Gestapo. The arrest of Mumia Abu-Jamal is the worst crime since slavery. Israeli settlers are as bad as Auschwitz. And either Bush or Sharon is equal to Hitler, depending on the day of the week.
Gosh, it's sure nice to know a smart history person who can teach me important facts like this!
Hey, someone has to teach you. You're not going to learn it from THE MAN!
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