Frames of reference

A great post from Cathie fron Canada on Amnesty International's genius. All I can add is that the effectiveness of the tactic is only partly in framing the debate. More importantly, it's in ensuring that the debate received any attention at all - does anybody think this story would have had the same shelf-life without every key administration official trying to counter it? All the better that with the administration on its heels, trying to explain how the U.S. wasn't quite as bad as the Soviet Union, suddenly the truth once again became the middle ground.