In light of the very interesting interview forum at Saddleback Church last weekend, Dean Barnett talks about a couple accusations the Left are making against McCain. One of them is that McCain tells a personal story which he supposedly lifted from one of our favorite authors, Solzhenitsyn. “This allegation” Barnett writes, “is made of course without any evidence. It’s not like McCain’s fellow soldiers are saying the story is a fabrication.”
Well, you see, it’s impossible that such an event could have happened more than once. Because, after all, concentrations camps were an extremely rare phenomenon in the 20th Century.
The real question is how common are Christian concentration camp guards in Vietnam. According to the CIA world factbook, about 6.7% of the Vietnamese population declared itself Catholic in the 1999 census. Unofficially the figure is probably higher. Prior to over a generation of repression of religion by a communist government, the figure was probably higher still.
How likely is a Christian conscripted to be a concentration camp guard to show an inmate that he is Christian, and only doing this because he has to – especially on Christmas? Doesn’t seem very far fetched.