Classic ash. She begs to differ.
Partisan Durbin should yield to patriotism
It seems that Sen. Dick Durbin is more concerned about world opinion than he is about home-grown opinion.
After his recent jaunt to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay he gleefully announced, with accordant response from al-Qaida & Associates, that the prison should be closed down by the end of the year because it has been “a negative symbol around the world for the failures of this administration.”
“Around the world,” senator? Around your world perhaps, and the factional leftists here and abroad that you represent. Most Americans care little for what the rest of the world thinks about us.
And as for “negative symbols,” what comment by any elected official has had a more negative effect on the war on terrorism than Durbin’s ill-timed utterance comparing U.S. interrogation methods to Nazi torture chambers?
With the crisis of civil war looming, Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, a political foe of Lincoln, told the newly elected, already beleaguered president, “Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I am with you, Mr. President, and God bless you.”
Upon which, ash clobbers the argument:
Juxtaposed with the release of John Dean’s book “Conservatives without Conscience,” in which Dean describes the authoritarian inclinations of approximately 23% of the population (almost entirely on the right edge of the political continuum), I read in our paper that “partisan feeling must yield to patriotism.”
Bush Junior is no Abraham Lincoln, and apparently I’m no Stephen Douglas. I suppose only a “factional [marginalized?] leftist” would feel the jaw drop to discover that “most Americans don’t care what the rest of the world thinks about us.” It certainly couldn’t be because regardless of what we think, we still have to occupy the same planet.
Could it?