A Deafening Silence

The left wing screeching about American activities at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has gone on, pretty much endlessly, ever since those events occurred. Let me put this very clearly - what happened in that place should not have. Period. But the United States military was already investigating the events before Time Magazine "broke" the story.

But the British sailors and marines who were taken hostage by an act of outright piracy on the high seas by Iran were actually subjected to worse treatment.

And the (almost) complete silence from the left on this is simply amazing. Memeorandum tells the tale. Only "Newshog" addresses it - and only to apologize for the Iranians. Andrew Sullivan also completely misses the point by neglecting the enormous difference - the Geneva Conventions have never, ever, applied to illegal combatants. And were not meant to. Period. But he calls the US actions worse than that of the Iranians. Who crossed a recognized border to take sailors and marines of an allied nation hostage in an act of outright piracy.

Worse than piracy? Really? Worse than violating the most holy "International Law" to take hostages? Really? 

But as for the rest of the left, there is complete silence. Deafening silence. The raging double standard is on full display.