Jennifer Rubin of Commentary, reacting to Obama’s UN speech:
Now, in his four pillars of foreign policy, what was missing? Why, human rights and democracy, of course.
I was stunned when I read this. I didn’t know Rubin (or anyone else at Commentary) believed in human rights or democracy. Oh, wait. Now I remember. Human rights are for humans, duh. That lets out the inmates of Guantanamo, Bagram, Camp Cropper (and formerly Abu Ghraib), as well as the hundred or so creatures held at those CIA secret interrogation centers. They are all terrorists, by definition, because the United States does not capture, detain, or interrogate anyone who is not a terrorist. If we’ve got ’em, they are terrorists, by definition. And also by definition, terrorists are not human beings.
Why do you think we call them all “terrorists,” hahahaha! If we called them “suspected terrorists” or — god forbid — “human beings,” we would have to give them human rights!
Now that I’m thinking about this, I remember it’s also part of that “American exceptionalism” thing — that is, “Human rights and democracy are one of the pillars of American foreign policy… except for America.”
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