some timely attention for the Euston Manifesto

Via Jeff Jarvis I note that, Roger Cohen of the IHT also has moral relativism on the brain (see my post earlier this evening) as he endorses the Euston Manifesto (which I have supported since its inception):

There appears to be little hope that Bush will ever abandon his with-us-or-against-us take on the post-9/11 world. Division is the president’s adrenalin; he abhors shades of gray. Nor does it seem likely that the America-hating, over-the-top ranting of the left – the kind that equates Guantánamo with the Gulag and holds that the real threat to human rights comes from the White House rather than Al Qaeda – will abate during the Bush presidency.

This state of affairs is grave. The threat posed by Islamic fanaticism, inside and outside Iraq, requires the lucid analysis and informed disagreement of civilized minds. Bush’s certainties are dangerous. But so is the moral equivalency of the left, the kind that during the Cold War could not see the crimes of communism, and now seems ready to equate the conservative leadership of a great democracy with dictatorship.