No, actually it's nothing like that.

Arizona: The Racial Profiling State

"It's like the judge telling the woman who got raped, 'You asked for it because of the way you dressed' OK? That's the same thing."

Yeah, that's Arizona Senator Jon Kyl bringing to bear the years of diplomatic experience he gained representing a state that will pull you over on suspicion of being Hispanic...in the southwest...to the current situation in the Middle East. 

You're not going out to
build a coalition dressed
like that are you?

Anyway, he and a bunch of other Republicans (including Mitt 'Who Let the Dogs Out?' Romney) have been critical of the U.S. State Department's official response to the recent Mideast violence which they feel was too, you know, diplomatic. Ok, fair enough, every one's got a right to their opinion. Even the White House has been a little hot and cold on the subject. But Kyl's statement contains a pretty subtle analogy that you might have missed, so I'll try to explain it. You see, America is like a rape victim and the judge is the State Department...and I think the last fifty years of U.S. foreign policy is a tube top and those shorts with 'juicy' written across the butt. Anyway, the Senator feels that the State Department's comments didn't include enough phrases like Bring it on! and Don't mess with Texas! and it didn't do nearly enough to incite further mayhem. And you know what? I totally see his point.

Assuming of course that his point is that he's really bad at analogies and that a guy who once made up bullshit statistics on the Senate floor as part of an effort to de-fund Planned Parenthood should really shut the hell up about rape.

Here's an analogy: Jon Kyl talking about the Middle East is like rich
white Republicans chiming in on women's reproductive rights.