Letters to the Editor
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Time to remind the Salon readership about "Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies"
Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies tells us:
"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
I wonder what the number of wartime abuses were, among Allied troops, as they marched through Europe in 1941, to defeat those same (ahem) Nazis. Shooting prisoners, extreme interrogations, collateral damage to civilians, etc. Regrettable, but not unexpected in wartime. (By the way, John Yoo never recommended nor would have tolerated any torture of any soldiers from any nation.)
How thoroughly odd it is, when we are essentially at war with groups who maintain the explicit goal of the extermination of Jews and who utilize the most massive means of terrorism known in our age, that the Salon readership woud find such fault with the governmnent of the United States as it fights those terrorists.