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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
You flinch at this righteous thing; I do not.
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The non-ideological response is this: For this war to have been righteous a reasonable chance of success would have been required. My expectation is that the now unstable Iraq will now become a wellspring of Islamic terror. The neo-con assumption that the three main slices of culture in Iraq would feel compelled to make democracy work rather than blow it apart is shocking in it's blindness.
The war in Iraq will play out and we'll see how it ends up. Back home, it is time to think like an ideologue. My ideology says that war is one of the ratchets that increases government power. Our failure in Iraq will be over-shadowed by the further degradation of the Republic. Bush does not think like a libertarian. He thinks like a statist. Look at the growth in Federal control over education. Do you know why Kennedy was supportive of NCLB? Because he knows that the Democrats will get the keys to the oval office again, he is willing to give Bush power that only local boards of education had. We are building to the day where the Feds will be having these stupid fights about teaching religion in science class instead of isolating the contagion in pockets around the country.