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The liberal or "progressive" dogma of moral equivalence produces some of the most absurd comparisons imaginable. Let's briefly analyze questions asked recently by Michel Martin, who works for the taxpayer-funded outfit known as National Public Radio.

In a discussion of the Ground Zero Mosque on CNN, Martin asked:

Did anybody move a Catholic church? Did anybody move a Christian church after Timothy McVeigh – who adhered to a cultic, white supremacist cultic version of Christianity – bombed the Murrah building in Oklahoma?

Martin's ridiculous questions are emblematic of the stupidity of the doctrine of moral equivalence. Equating the deeds of one murderous zealot (McVeigh) acting with one accomplice (Terry Nichols) in one lone event with the murderous rampages of millions of fanatics over 1,400 years across seven continents shows that liberals are capable of stooping very low indeed to vilify the Western culture that they so detest.

Martin's outlandish comparison is just one of thousands that we could discuss. Let's recall two other assessments that demonstrate the depth to which the American left can sink when demonizing opponents--especially when the opponents champion Western culture.

In her 2005 end-of-year message, Amnesty International secretary general Irene Khan wrote, “The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has become the gulag of our times...”

The U.S. and the U.S.S.R morally equivalent?

Stalin and his successors imprisoned 20 million people over 40 years in brutal forced labor camps. Millions were killed after being assessed as political threats. At Gitmo, the United States jailed 775 enemy combatants and terrorists, 340 of whom were released. Criminal cases were made against about 100, sending some to their home countries. In October 2006, no country would accept 110 detainees set to be released. About 75 were to be tried, while 250 were believed to be a threat or have knowledge of valuable intelligence. By June 2008, detainees numbered 270. All detainees had and still have clean cells, medical care, and three healthy meals a day. Many had problems with weight gain. Three detainees died—from suicide.

So let’s see, millions murdered versus three suicides. Sleeping in rat crap and eating the rats that produced the crap, versus healthy conditions and fattening food. To the progressive thinker, moral judgments cannot follow from data. Right, wrong, good, and bad are silly concepts. Thus, thenceforth, theretofore, and because Kahn felt like it, any of our actions that she decides to label as wrong or bad are automatically as wrong or as bad as those of the U.S.S.R. By the liberal doctrine of moral equivalence, America is on moral par with the Soviet Union—period, end of discussion.

In our final case for today, concerning America's treatment of a Gitmo detainee, Senator Dick Durbin said,

If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was… what Americans had done to prisoners… you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime—Pol Pot or others—that had no concern for human beings.

 
Author and former Washington Times reporter Rowan Scarborough pointed out,

The Senate’s No. 2 Democrat has compared the U.S. military’s treatment of a suspected al Qaeda terrorist at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay with the regimes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot, three of history’s most heinous dictators, whose regimes killed millions.

Nearly 13.5 million innocents were murdered by Hitler, Stalin, and Pot. Three terrorists voluntarily checked out of Gitmo. No staunch liberal would seriously doubt the equivalence. Size doesn’t matter. America is every bit the monster that those murderous regimes were, simply because a liberal says so.

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