Those Mean Republicans

According to Richard Cohen at the Washinton Post, Republicans are just being mean to Senator Durbin for his comparison of Gitmo to death camps.

...Durbin is not being faulted for a lack of nuance. He has instead come under vitriolic attack by Republicans who would have you think that the Democrat from Illinois likened America to the Soviet Union or the American military to Nazi Germany or disparaged the military in its entirety. In the name of our armed forces, Virginia Sen. John W. Warner asked for an apology.

Cohen erases all doubt that The Post is other than a liberal rag.

Frank J. Gaffney Jr., president of the Center for Security Policy and a columnist for The Washington Times, exoriates Durbin.

Mr. Durbin's most grievous offense, of course, was his defamation of American troops who protect us from terrorist operatives, trainers, recruiters, bomb-makers and financiers confined at Guantanamo. He has not only derided their service. He has legitimated our enemies' efforts to wage war against us by suggesting the government whose orders they follow is literally -- as well as morally -- equivalent to the most repressive regimes the world has ever known.

N o matter which way you look at Durbin's words they fuel anti-Americanism.