[lbo-talk] Thaddeus Russell: Why Liberals Kill

[c b]

> "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.

"All the wars of the 20th century have been Democrat wars." - Bob Dole, 1976

^^^^
CB; Wasn't there something of a division of labor ? Dems started all
the wars, and Reps the recessions.

Up until Carter, it was also true that all of the Dems started wars -
Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy/Johnson (well)  Dole's point was no
longer true with "the new world order " of George Bush , the Elder.