Here is where the Democrats are today, as noted at OTB’s comments section [1]last night. Two different people, both leftists, both speaking about Iraq and the liberation of it’s people: First one:
Certainly when you look at the cost/benefit equation, the wisdom of removing Saddam by force is questionable
Incredulous, I ask if we a re now judging the value of freedom by the dollar sign. And, he responds:
That is a good point. According to Austin’s logic, ousting Charles Mugabe should be worth several hundred billion. The yahoos in Sudan should be worth multiple trillions. At what point does Charles Austin suggest we stop with his logic? Clearly, he’s saying we’re better off with Mugabe in power if he isn’t for all out war resulting in a regime change in Zimbabwe
So, we look further down the comment list, and we see another inDUHvidual:
My personal opinion is that if the people of Iraq wanted freedom, they should have fought for it all by themselves. We have a lot of problems in our own country to deal with, and we are burning up a lot of our resources in Iraq, a country with great wealth of its own.
The real cost of freedom is a willingness to die for it. Did the people of Iraq ever show that?
Actually, they were dying daily. Ask the Kurds, the Marsh people and so on. But here’s the thing… these two are flying Democrat party colors. And in that party this narrow-mindedness is hardly unique. It used to be different in that party, though. Back on January 20th, 1961, we first heard these words:
[2]Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required—not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
You know, it’s a wonder to me that the Democrats still invoke JFK as an icon, given how far away from his ideals they’ve traveled.