[lbo-talk] Thaddeus Russell: Why Liberals Kill

[Joseph Catron]

"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

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