A Medal of Freedom for what, exactly?
John Bolton puts the case that Obama should not be bestowing the Medal of Freedom on Mary Robinson.
But Bolton underplays it, I think.
It reminds me of the double-standard used in Europe. While the Nazi-apologist British historian David Irving was being throw in jail by the Austrians for denying the Holocaust, then-British-PM Tony Blair was awarding the unrepentant Stalinist historian Eric Hobsbawm some sort of medal.
Both Irving and Hobsbawm, two sides of the exact same collectivist nightmare coin, deserved opprobrium, not jail or a medal. But it’s clear which side of the coin triumphed in Europe, and the rest, as they say, is history.
There’s not even a good argument for inviting Mary Robinson to the White House, let alone giving her a prestigious award while she’s there.
“If only Barack knew.”