Just to clarify.
I’m not against withdrawal from Iraq. I’m just against doing it before we win.
I’m not against alternative energy, clean energy or the fantastic economic opportunities they provide. I’m just against relying on those sources before they are viable.
I’m not against universal health coverage. I’m just against a single-payer government program to provide it.
Believe it or not, I support many of the goals that have become the platform for modern liberal dogma. The sticking points are how we get there. In debates, Democrats often talk about the importance of the goals they seek (suggesting that their political opponents don’t share these goals), and glaze over the details of how you get there. For this conservative at least, the means they don’t talk about are often not worth the ends they do.
Reminds me of the famous South Park Underpants Gnomes’ plans for converting stolen undergarments into profit:
- Collect underpants
- ?
- Profit
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You offer now way to achieve your supposed goals. You are putting up obstancles - I can only guess why. Maybe you fear change, or worry about the unknown. With health care in particular, you’d better put something up. From what I see, the private sector, by its very structure, can’t do the job for us. That’s the problem - the profit-seeking sector is a leach on the system. Got milk?
And you have that arrogant and ugly American attitude that we have a right to “win” in Iraq, as if that represented something good for those godforsaken people. We’ve done enough to them now, killed enough of them, made enough of them leave the country, starved enough of their kids - Saddam never had it so good! We can leave now.
Mark, what exactly to you think “winning” means? Winning is political and military stability in Iraq so there isn’t chaos when we leave. You don’t think that’s good for the people of Iraq?
Since it was you who introduced the horrors and instability, I think it’s the least you owe them, but it ain’t gonna happen. Occupation by force against the will of a people always ends badly.
I suppose you can always say that your side had good intentions, but as I’ve said from the beginning, that’s not the case either. You and your fellow travelers are a curse on us all, and especially on the Iraqi people - those who are left to complain, anyway.
