Moral Equivalence Or Moral Relativity?

George Galloway has a reputation that spans the Atlantic; one of irreverence, irrascibility, and just being a highly provocative curmudgeon (some might say "pain in the ass") with a powerful love of the sauce. Personally I find him highly entertaining, particularly when he pastes the likes of Norm Coleman, in that case during the former's testimony before the Senate Sweep-It-Under-The-Rug Committee.

I also like to think Galloway has a little courage too:

The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair.

In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?"

Mr Galloway replied: "Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did."

It is imagined this bit of intellectual viscera will radiate across the pond as well, lapping our shores in an underlying current.