Catholic and Enjoying It!
For those keeping track at home, this war is not to oust an oppressive Islamic regime (that’s Libya). This one is to *defend* an oppressive Islamic regime.
I wonder how many of the people who voted for Obama on the “lesser of two evils” theory (yes, Dems make the same political rationalizations that Righties do, only using different actuarial factors in their calculus) are wondering if the whole “Lesser of two evils” approach is really all that it’s cracked up to be? I guess the absolute silence of the “anti-war Left” answers that question, don’t it?
What motivated the supposed “conscience” of Generation Narcissus during the Vietnam War was one thing and one thing only: the draft and free sex. Generation Narcissus didn’t want to get killed or have something impede its ability to acquire wealth, so we got all righteous about “peace” just as we got all righeous about the sexual revolution. (We try to take credit for the Civil Rights Movement, but the heavy lifting, as usual, was done by our parents, who also fought WWII and thwarted the Commies.) Once the draft went away, we Boomers have shown ourselves quite ready, willing, and able to send an all volunteer force off to make war all over the place in preservation of the Empire. The “anti-war Left” could not care less about the expenditure of blood and treasure, or the deaths of foreigners, when Their Man is the guy calling the (very literal) shots.
One more reason I have no more use for the Thing That Used to Be Liberalism than I do for the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism.
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