Practically everybody on the planet was more hawkish on Afghanistan than Bush was. That was a major criticism of him from just about everybody.
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> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:27 AM, <northsunm at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > This confuses
> conservative with not being open to changing ones
> > ideas.
> > > But there are plenty of radical leftists who
> remain radical leftists into
> > > old age. Are they conservatives? Others change
> their views in old age and
> > > become conservative. I guess this makes them
> liberals!
> > > The whole idea of
> dividing the world into liberals and
> > conservatives
> > > is a bit nutty or at least hopelessly imprecise.
> Is Justin Raimondo
> > > conservative or liberal. Obama is supposedly a
> liberal but on foreign
> > policy
> > > issues such as Afghanistan he is more hawkish
> than Bush was.
> > >
> > > Cheers, k hanly