[lbo-talk] Thaddeus Russell: Why Liberals Kill

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 16:11:24 PDT 2009


"What too few Americans realize—especially the president’s anti-war supporters, who accuse him of betraying liberal or 'progressive' values—is that if he accedes to General Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops in Afghanistan and intensifies the drone attacks in Pakistan, he will follow squarely in the footsteps of the great liberal statesmen he has cited as his role models. Though opponents of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cheered loudly when Obama spoke reverentially in his campaign speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy, those heroes of the president promoted and oversaw U.S. involvement in wars that killed, by great magnitudes, more Americans and foreign civilians than all the modern Republican military operations combined."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-17/why-liberals-kill/full/&h=1e9646ebe0857c2dabf182cb61f820ed&ref=nf

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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