More Steyn

Glenn Greenwald has a post up today about Mark Steyn. Steyn and Hugh Hewitt have a lot of sidesplitting things to say about all those dark, dangerous men being held in Gitmo, and the "lavish" conditions in which they are kept. (All of this on the day the US Senate voted to authorize torture.)

Here's Greenwald:

These two coddled authoritarian cultists are giggling about people who have been put into cages for the last five years on an island, away from their lives and their families, with little hope of ever being released. Many of them have attempted suicide. Actual terrorists ought to be detained and sentenced to life in prison or, reasonable people can believe, executed, provided they are found guilty in a fair proceeding. But large numbers of these detainees have been imprisoned without ever being charged with, let alone convicted of anything. And it is beyond dispute -- even the Bush administration admits -- that many of those we have detained in Guantanamo have been guilty of absolutely nothing.

To sit around chortling about how great these detainees have it and how grateful they should be requires a sociopathic derangement that is nothing short of grotesque. And to believe that people on a one-day controlled visit get an accurate or complete picture of what goes on there requires a blind faith in the Government so absolute that it is explains most of what one needs to know about the authoritarian Bush movement. On the day our country legalized tortured techniques and vested the definitively un-American power of indefinite detention in the President, Hugh Hewitt and Mark Steyn take off their masks and reveal the hideous and frivolous face of the Bush follower.

By the way, as James Wolcott has noted helpfully, "Steyn" rhymes with "whine," not "stain," though really, both would be perfectly appropriate.

More Steynishness here.