Digitus Impudicus

Outrage

It's been 30 years since the Khmer Rouge rolled into Phnom Penh. I've become somewhat of a student of Pol Pot's rein during that period, and have learned many things about the atrocities for which he (and his allies) were responsible.

But that doesn't matter. What really matters is that we carefully study the lessons taught to us by our betters in the mainstream media; those from whom all wisdom descends.

In a Yahoo news story that purports to "educate" us as to the lessons of that vicious period, I found the following passage:

After Pol Pot's clique ordered the eradication of "hidden enemies burrowing from within," terror and death became commonplace. Sometimes suspected enemies were executed in public; often they simply vanished. "Be quiet," people whispered; "bodies disappear."

In our age of terrorist fear, as suspect Arabs and Muslims vanish, are tortured, or held without trial, the Khmer Rouge period cautions us about the dangers of political paranoia. The enemy within, too often, turns out to be ourselves as - driven by fear - we violate the rights of others.

That's right. While commemorating a time wherein more than a million people were slaughtered on the alter of an inhuman ideology responsible for the deaths of more than one hundred million, we should be cautioned about our own actions in the War On Terror and the "terrible" things we do in pursuit of that.

Same shit, different decade. You may not remember the "moral equivalence" asininity that so marked the MSM's behavior when the Soviet Union was still around, but it went something like this: The USSR did baaaaad things. The US did baaaad things. Ipso Facto: Neither is better than the other.

This, of course, ignoring the limp bodies hanging on the razor-wire atop the Berlin Wall. This, of course, ignoring the toy-shaped explosive devices manufactured by the USSR to blow up children in Afghanistan. This, of course, ignoring nuclear ballistic missiles in Cuba. This, of course, ignoring... yada yada yada. (Psssst! Ever hear of Stalin? The crushing of the Prague Spring? The forced collectivization and resultant mass starvation in the Ukraine?)

We blocked people from trying to get in to the US. The soviets shot people for trying to get out. But hey, it's all relative. Right?

I will admit that I was surprised to find that there is at least one remaining member of the Paleo-Lefty goon squad willing (nay, eager!) to compare the United States with a murderous communist regime.

Viva la Che, kids.