The Devastating Logic of Atlas Shrugs
Atlas Shrugs, the worst thing to come out of New York since Saturday Night Live stopped airing Molly Shannon’s “ah love it” sketches, links to Dahlia Lithwick’s Washington Post op-ed which asks:
Why is the United States poised to try Jose Padilla as a dangerous terrorist, long after it has become clear that he was just the wrong Muslim in the wrong airport on the wrong day?
Why is Washington still holding hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, long after years of interrogation and abuse have established that few, if any, of them are the deadly terrorists they have been held out to be?
And Atlas actually has an answer to these rhetorical questions.
Because we are at war, stupid. WaPo has become the mecca of moonbattery.
She doesn’t even argue with Lithwick’s premises. She accepts that Padilla is innocent, as are most detainees at Guantanamo. And she thinks that’s just fine.