2004 Year in Review

Iraq - a liberal war!

Paul Campos, a Professor at the University of Colorado says that the war in Iraq is based on assumptions that are more liberal than conservative:

Conservative political theory has always emphasized that human cultures are by nature immensely complex things, and that each culture has its own organic logic and structure, which will be difficult for outsiders to understand. In particular, conservative thinkers deride the liberal delusion that imposing one culture's laws and institutions on another will automatically transform the latter into something that resembles the former.

Conservative thinkers have made particularly devastating criticisms of liberal thought by pointing out the extent to which liberalism has failed to grasp that religious belief and nationalist sentiment remain overwhelmingly powerful forces in human affairs.

Former Republican Congressman Bob Barr agrees that Bush is not a conservative in an article titled "An Agonizing Choice":

At the same time, here at home, many law-abiding citizens accurately perceive that their own freedoms and civil liberties are being stripped. They are being profiled by government computers whenever they want to travel, their bank accounts are being summarily closed because they may fit some "profile," they are under surveillance by cameras paid for by that borrowed federal money, and, if the administration has its way, they will be forced to carry a national identification card. That skewed sense of priorities really rankles conservatives.

President Bush is really a liberal parading in conservative garb: high levels of spending and enormous deficits, reducing American rights, and a foreign policy based on the assumption that we can change the world with military power.

If he was a Democrat - Republicans would impeach him!

by John Legler, Guest Columnist
October 13, 2004