What's the difference between Abu Zubaydah and Adel Agayby Zakhary? Or Arkady Zaltsman? Or Abraham J Zelmanowitz? Or Andrew Steven Zucker?
There are quite a few differences I imagine, but the most obvious is that the first AZ is alive, well and bleating to the press about how badly he has been treated by the Great Satan. And the others are all dead. They were killed during the terror atrocity on September 11 2001 in New York and Washington DC which Al-Qaeda mastermind Abu Zubaydah helped plan.
Yet if I hadn't mentioned all those other names, you would almost certainly never have read them again. Such is our sophisticated response in the liberal West to the war on terror: we demonstrate our moral superiority by agonizing endlessly in our newspapers, on TV and blogs about the human rights of the various terror suspects who have been captured since 9/11, while giving scarcely a fig for the memory of the numerous innocents they have managed to wipe out by bullet, grenade or suicide bomb. Read more.