Durbin was Right???

In a grand move that once again reiterates the the irrelevance of Minnesota (sorry but you are the home of Walter Mondale, Jesse Ventura and mosquitoes the size Katie Holmes gullibility), the Star Tribune opines that Dur bin-laden should not have apologized for the remarks made on the Senate floor.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., set off a firestorm last week when he compared U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo to practices employed by Nazis, Soviets, Pol Pot and their ilk. His remarks were condemned by the White House, the Pentagon, the Christian Coalition, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Newt Gingrich (who called for his censure by the Senate) and by the entire right side of the talk radio/television/blog world. The heat got so bad that, late in the week, Durbin apologized if his remarks had been "misunderstood." They weren't, and Durbin should not have apologized.

Instead, the senator should have hit back hard, just as the Amnesty International did when its comparison of Guantanamo to the Soviet gulag was attacked. By caving in, Durbin did just what the orchestrated right-wing smear effort required to succeed: It made him the story rather than focusing further attention on the outrageous violations of international law and human rights being perpetrated in Guantanamo and elsewhere in the name of the American people.

Once again proof that the Berkeley-ites of the north just don't get it. If you want, you can read the rest of the story here.