I’ve discussed North Korea and torture. But bear in mind that the Chinese Communists are no slouch in this department. We wouldn’t want to leave them out, would we? Especially when they’re torturing Americans. Here is an article from the Associated Press: “An American geologist held and tortured by China’s state security agents was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for gathering data on the Chinese oil industry.”

This is a country with which the Obama administration recently held “human rights” talks — a country with a one-party dictatorship and a gulag. The United States, in the person of assistant secretary of state Michael Posner, was eager to express guilt to Beijing over Arizona’s new law on illegal immigrants. Why do I say “eager”? Posner was asked by journalists whether he or the Chinese had brought up Arizona. He said, “We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session, and as a troubling trend in our society and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination, and that these are issues very much being debated in our own society.”

There is a sickness in our society, ladies and gentlemen — a sickness of what, back in Cold War days, we called “moral equivalence.” Let’s debate that.