Coalition troops freed over a hundred Iraqi children today who had been imprisoned because they refused to join the Baath Party. Meanwhile, narcissists continue to navel gaze and belly-ache about the Oakland police. Andrew Sullivan brilliantly hammers home the point:
On the same day [as the freeing of the children], James Carroll of the Boston Globe asks this question: "Does your nation any longer know that it, too, is part of the human family? That that family is now warning of a fatal loss of trust in the ideal for which the American flag has so long stood? Are that flag, and all who have carried it, honored by what is being done under its sign today?" Carroll's answer is no. Maybe he should usher those kids back into prison himself.
