Menchaca and Tucker

Don't attempt to equivocate between the handling of detainees at Guantanamo and the group of people that mutilated beyond recognition Army Privates Menchaca and Tucker.

Don't attempt to balance the scales and make right and wrong fuzzy and irrelevant with the actions of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib - actions which were universally condemned by both civilian and military leadership in America - and which resulted to court-martials and prison.

Don't start blabbing about how the current administration killed these soldiers with their approach to Iraq, or throwing out non-sequitors about Iraqi babies, Darfur, or 30 years of interventionist US foreign policy.

You can still be against the war. You can still think the current president is terrible for America and the world. You can believe all of these things and still claim with certainty that an enemy in possession of an ideology that approves such atrocities as gouging out men's eyes while they are still alive - this ideology is unequivocally wrong, beyond disgust, and lower, by any measure, than the United States of America, both in principle and even in the reality of our actions.

Don't equivocate.

You can do it.