The Hyperbolic Opposition

Ryan Sager writes that “For those who have supported the war all along–or at least want to see us win–it’s sad not to have a loyal opposition to help keep the administration honest”:

There’s an important debate to be had in this country about just how far we’re willing to go in our interrogations. But it’s a difficult debate to even get started when one side thinks that we should be extremely concerned with the possibility that someone, somewhere might have desecrated the Korans of the people responsible for the murders of Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, three-thousand Americans and now hundreds upon hundreds of Iraqi civilians.

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