To the editor:

On June 14, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., likened our troops to the Nazis and the Khmer Rouge because a “barefooted detainee was shaking with cold” in his room at Guantanamo Bay. A day later, William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA – the group that has called Guantanamo a “gulag” – said interrogators would have more success with a terrorist detainee by “making friends with the person.”

Perhaps Durbin and his colleagues should consider launching a program similar to the foster parents program, in which Democrats would take custody of the terrorists. The program could be called Democrats Advocating Friendship with Terrorists (DAFT). John Kerry, who met with the Viet Cong in Paris and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and, thus, has extensive experience with befriending our enemies, could lead this noble effort.

A DAFT draft would sign up Democrats to sponsor and befriend terrorists. Durbin could take his terrorist to watch the Bears throw around the pigskin (of course, on a day when Soldier Field isn’t too cold). Harry Reid could take his to Las Vegas (what happens there stays there). Robert Byrd could show his how to work under the hood.

The Democrats could even have a Take Your Terrorist to Work Day so the terrorists can see how our democracy works.

Imagine footage of Ted Kennedy and his terrorist barhopping with the theme song from “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” playing in the background. Run that on Al-Jazeera and al-Qaida would certainly stop killing Americans.

Kevin Groenhagen,

Lawrence