Echoes

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

Malkin quotes Max Boot:

Infinitely worse deeds [than Abu Ghraib] are being done in Darfur daily. Where's the outrage?...

The silence of the "antiwar" masses speaks volumes about their priorities: They don't object to war crimes as long as they're not committed by Americans.

Well, he's certainly not entirely wrong; Darfur seems to have fallen off the radar screen. (Although check out Tas.) I certainly haven't written about Darfur, and I could point out that it's because Michelle hasn't written much either.

But instead, I'll respond to Malkin's accusation-by-proxy of "silence" on an issue with a bit of a non sequitur.

There's nothing particularly wrong with Malkin's new column. It should come as news to no one that our schools have a red tape problem, and as an outrage to everyone that child abuse occurs, goes unreported, and is covered up, in the public schools. But Malkin clearly has an agenda here, and it's not improving public schools.

You send your children to school to learn, not to be assaulted by classmates and abused by the negligent overseers of Public School Classrooms Gone Wild. If these assaults occurred in private schools, the institutions would be shut down. Instead, the government dance of the lemons continues, as abominable administrators skip away with "sensitivity training," "reassignment," and eternal protection from accountability.

Yes, that is a problem.