oh really?OpinionJournal has the real reason we're in Iraq: In fact, the real reason we went into Iraq was precisely to "nation build": to create a secularized, liberated, cosmopolitan society in a core Arab nation. To create a place where Arabs were free and safe and unafraid and happy and successful and not ruled by corrupt monarchs or brutal dictators. This would demonstrate to the other people in the Arab and Muslim worlds that they can succeed, but only if they abandon those political, cultural and religious chains that are holding them back. The right certainly has come a long way, hasn't it? Stop me if you've heard this before (maybe here or here), but why is the left letting these people get away with this? We're are the true liberal-hawks and why are they waffling so much? I'm not neccessarily saying Joe Lieberman needs to cry foul because conservatives are now playing ball in his park, but couldn't he rightly make the argument that the right has only come back to the humanitarian argument because we haven't yet found the weapons? Am I alone in remembering that, before the war, the right was scoffing at the humanitarian argument while entirely trumpeting the cause of national interest and of our self-defense? Is Joe Lieberman really that afraid of the democratic base that he can't question the consistency of the message of the right on this issue, for fear of highlighting the fact that he was for the war? |
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