By Ankush
I'm finding James Kirchick (the assistant to Marty Peretz) to be ... interesting.
In the middle of an attack on the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission -- the merits of which I'm not concerned with here -- he offers this up:
IGLHRC'sexecutive director, Paul Ettlebrick, who seems unable to open her mouthabout the horrendous treatment of gays overseas without throwing in aline about how awful her own country is, said, "Who is the U.S. toissue a report on every other government in the world on its humanrights activities, especially in light of Guantanamo Bay and AbuGhraib?" Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo (the former a disgrace and thelatter hardly so) should not rise to the level of epic disastersresponsible for utterly destroying America's moral authority.
Guantanamois "hardly" a disgrace? Kirchick, without any sense of irony, proceedsto diagnose Ettlebrick with a "serious case of moral obtuseness." Issomeone at The New Republic seriously defending what goes on there?
Inquiring minds...
Update: I corrected the first sentence to note that Kirchick is Peretz's assistant, not Franklin Foer's. Thanks to commenter DaveMB for the catch.
