Quote of the day: "arabic is sooooo gay oh my gahhhhhhd"

That's what one of my friends said when I showed her this gem from Jon Swift, "a reasonable conservative who likes to write about politics and culture."

the military has discharged 55 Arabic language specialists for being gay (who knew that Arabic was such a gay language?). Sure, it might make it a little more difficult for us to intercept enemy radio communications in Iraq and make interrogations of enemy soldiers a tad more time-consuming, but I think it would be a lot worse if we threw all of our American values out the door for the sake of expediency. What in fact are we fighting for if not our principles and values? Besides, I think our new interrogation methods render the language barrier a non-issue.

Wiser words were never spoken. It's a good thing we're so much more worried about gays in the military than we are about militant neonazi thugs that radicalize the troops and take their military training home with them after the war is over like Timothy McVeigh did.

Swift rivals Fafblog's Medium Lobster for the title of America's most reasonable conservative. His recommendation that we "Declare Supreme Court Justices Enemy Combatants" is a must-read.

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