Andrew Sullivan Cheering on Durbin

Not that I'm particularly surprised by this bit of sophistry, but Sullivan shows his extreme leanings.

It is this administration that has brought indelible shame on America, and it's people like Dick Durbin who prove that some can actually stand up against this stain on American honor and call it what it is. Good for him. Thank God for him.

Yes Andrew, under this administrations some very poor decisions were made and some are most definitely criminal, but how can you defend equating this with regimes that tortured and killed millions of people? That isn't appropriate comparison, it's political incitement. The brush that Durbin used is so wide that it paints all personnel in the military as murderers and tortures. Is that appropriate?

In general this country is made up of reasonable people, and the reactions to Durbin's statements are reasonable for the most part. I'm just surprised that Sullivan has proven himself to be so unreasonable.