The "obscenity" of comparing Americans to "killers and terrorists"

A couple of weeks ago, I took issue with some of the objections being voiced by progressive critics of Markos Moulitsas' new book, The American Taliban.  In particular, I found this sentence from The American Prospect's Jamelle Bouie -- fairly representative of the negative reaction to the book -- to be not only absurd but almost offensive in its self-loving nationalism:  "Yes, progressives are depressed and despondent about the future, but . . . . it doesn't excuse the obscenity of...