Leftists Don't Care About Guantanamo

Mark Steyn of the Chicago Sun-Times busts Dick Durbin-the-Turban and exposes the left's phony "concern" about what's going on at Guantanamo. My favorite part is this:

Now let us turn to the ranking Democrat, the big cheese on the committee, Patrick Leahy of Vermont. Leahy thinks Gitmo needs to be closed down and argues as follows: "America was once very rightly viewed as a leader in human rights and the rule of law, but Guantanamo has drained our leadership, our credibility, and the world's good will for America at alarming rates."

So, until Guantanamo, America was "viewed as a leader in human rights"? Not in 2004, when Abu Ghraib was the atrocity du jour. Not in 2003, when every humanitarian organization on the planet was predicting the deaths of millions of Iraqis from cholera, dysentery and other diseases caused by America's "war for oil." Not in 2002, when the "human rights" lobby filled the streets of Vancouver and London and Rome and Sydney to protest the Bushitler's plans to end the benign reign of good King Saddam. Not the weekend before 9/11 when the human rights grandees of the U.N. "anti-racism" conference met in South Africa to demand America pay reparations for the Rwandan genocide and to cheer Robert Mugabe to the rafters for calling on Britain and America to "apologize unreservedly for their crimes against humanity." If you close Gitmo tomorrow, the world's anti-Americans will look around and within 48 hours alight on something else for Gulag of the Week.

It's true. Leftists will attack this country from the outside, or from the inside like a cancer so long as they are out of power. They despise democracy whether they be guerrillas in the jungles of the Philippines or Democrats in the restaurants of Georgetown. If it isn't Guantanamo, the disloyal left will just find something else. Trying to appease the Democrats is like trying to appease terrorists. They won't be satisfied until this country is the United Socialist States of America.