Mark Steyn reports on Ted Turner's latest pronouncement:

He's now weighed in on the ayatollahs, and his line's pretty straightforward: Why shouldn't Iran have nukes?

"They're a sovereign state," he said. "We have 28,000. Why can't they have 10? We don't say anything about Israel -- they've got 100 of them approximately -- or India or Pakistan or Russia. And really, nobody should have them. They aren't usable by any sane person."

The key to that is the meaning of the word "sane," of course, but it's typical of the fairness fetish afflicting so many in this country. It's why when we get on an elevator with someone creepy, we fear to let our nervousness show.

The liberal impulse to excuse our enemies because we aren't perfect seems to have become so ingrained in our ideas of socially acceptable behavior that we automatically disapprove of calling evil what it is. There's a little gasp in the modern mind when Bush calls someone evil, even though he's talking about people who plot to murder young men and women along with however many Jews or Americans they can take with them. To claim that deposing or opposing groups like that and the governments that sponsor them is unjustified is an indicator of an almost total lack of seriousness, especially when combined with irrational hatred of those who take arms against evil. While we've been enjoying life, distracted by the titillation and debauchery of our popular media, the leadership of the world has been drifting into this morass of moral equivalence.

The people who obsess over Bush seeking to create a theocracy in the U.S., seemed to scarcely notice Ahmadinejad's little prayer at the end of his speech to the U.N. which signaled his fervent wish for a worldwide theocracy, or better yet, a worldwide holocaust of infidels to bring about his version of the second coming. Despite the many examples in history of the folly of taking madmen at their word, the left is intent on pursuing that elusive butterfly of socialism, from which heading off the next world conflagration is just an annoying distraction.

We made a huge mistake in creating the United Nations. They aren't united, and some aren't really nations, having been cobbled together by European colonialists. I was taught in grade school via My Weekly Reader that the U.N. was going to be just like the U.S. but worldwide. I haven't taken that seriously since 6th grade.