Sullivan’s Over-dramatic Graner Comment
January 18, 2005 · By H. Cameron
Charles Graner, for those of you who haven’t been paying attention to the news, is the former Army prison guard who was caught abusing Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Andrew Sullivan has this to say about Charles Graner,
It would be hard to find or invent a more graphic example of evil than that perpetrated by Graner in Abu Ghraib. And yet, he received only 10 years, rather than the maximum fifteen. Why? [link]
I’ve got to agree with James Taranto over at “Best of the Web Today” when he said,
How about flying planes into buildings? Suicide bombings? Beheading hostages?
how bout sawing someone’s head off! would that be more evil? and i wasn’t hard pressed to come up with that.
don’t forget the videotaping of this event, and the subsequent rebroadcast throughout the Arab world.
That sounds pretty evil to me…
Of course, what would I know. I don’t possess the sensibilities of the left.
Do two evils make a right?
Apparently Andrew Sullivan thinks they do.