Christina Aguilera’s part in the war on terror

mark steyn has more on music and torture by now, one or two readers may be frothing indignantly, “that’s not funny! bush’s torture camp at guantanamo is the gulag of our time, if not of all time.” but that’s the point. the world divides into those who feel the atrocities at gitmo “must have been done by nazis, soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — pol pot or others” (in the widely quoted words of senator dick durbin), and the rest of us, for whom the more we hear the specifics of the “atrocities” the funnier they are. they bear the same relation to the gulags (15-30 million dead), the nazi camps (nine million dead) and the killing fields of cambodia (two million dead) as mel brooks‚ “springtime for hitler” does to th...