Odious comparison
From Mr William Grey Sir: Mark Steyn's rant (People who hate people', 6 October) against the abstract nouns used by peace-loving lefties was selfaggrandising, dull and better put by George Orwell 55 years ago in Politics and the English Language.
Steyn's conclusion, that to use the language of pacifists is to insult the memory of the `real, living men and women and children with families and street addresses' who died on 11 September, seems to me stupid and dangerous, at a time when the lives of thousands of equally innocent Afghans hang in the balance.
The only logical conclusion to be drawn from his piece is that Steyn, like President Bush, considers the lives of foreign refugees without street addresses to be infinitely less concrete and real than those of Americans.
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