Dumb or Dangerous?

Fran Coombs, the managing editor at The Washington Times has this to say about the line of Democrats willing to trash their country in the name of political gain:

Does anybody remember the thousands of innocent Americans who were killed in the cowardly sneak attacks on 9/11? Have we completely forgotten that we are a nation at war with a very ruthless, very capable enemy? It is dangerous nonsense to equate our interrogation center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba with the Soviet Gulag, as Amnesty International has done, or with the holocaust that Cambodian killer Pol Pot visited on hundreds of thousands of his own people, as the Senate’s number two Democrat, Dick Durbin, did Tuesday night. Sure, we may be a little rough on some of those prisoners at Gitmo, but torture it is not. And as Don Rumsfeld put it on Monday, “They are not common car thieves.” These are very bad people; these are enemies of the United States of America; these are people who kill innocent women and children. In Iraq terrorists of this ilk have blown up mosques, killed hundreds of their fellow believers and desecrated countless Korans, but who’s counting? Let one terrorist at Gitmo claim an American looked sideways ata Koran though, and it’s an international incident.

Even after years of covering political debates in this country, I am amazed at the self-destructive tone of the comments coming from the political Left these days. How does anyone with a smidgen of historical knowledge make those kinds of comparisons with a straight face? Is the short-term political gain really worth the long-term damage done to this country’s image abroad and the enemies it encourages? Have you no shame.

I think the best line there is "In Iraq terrorists of this ilk have blown up mosques, killed hundreds of their fellow believers and desecrated countless Korans, but who's counting? Let one terrorist at Gitmo claim an American looked sideways at a Koran, though, and it's an international incident." With our very own elected officials at the front of the line denouncing their own country and servicemen and women, I might add.