Moral equivalence isn't so much the ability to see the truth in all sides as it is the inability to recognize evil, even when it jumps up and bites you on the buttocks.
Communism's Western apologists -- who were legion in academia, the media, politics, the bureaucracy and the cultural elite -- were only able to convince themselves the West was no better than the Soviet Union or China because they were willing to dismiss the gulags, famines, purges and psychiatric prisons while overemphasizing such comparatively trivial western inequities as the gap between rich and poor.
And so it is with jihad's current Western apologists. They obsess over America's secret prisons and its coercive interrogations at Guantanamo, while dismissing as mere propaganda western intelligence on the human rights abuses committed by terror groups and their state sponsors. They decry Israeli retaliation against Hamas or Hezbollah attacks while overlooking the initial terror attacks themselves.
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