Greenwald sighs at the rightosphere's reaction to the government offloading a group of Gitmo detainees, which were determined by the Bush administration to not be enemy combatants. A.L. double sighs:
That the plight of these men elicits precisely zero sympathy (indeed,
it provokes laughter) from most supposedly freedom-loving conservatives
in this county underscores the extent to which many conservatives have
managed to dehumanize in their own minds the many foreigners whose
lives are impacted by our policies.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/06/the-right-and-the-uighurs/200669/
