My, Wasn't Che a Cuddly Fellow.

[DanaC]

And for the other side (e.g Che) they also believe themselves to be moral beings and see imperialism as immoral and 'ought not to be'.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by DanaC

And for the other side (e.g Che) they also believe themselves to be moral beings and see imperialism as immoral and 'ought not to be'.

DanaC, that is the second time in the last thirty days you've tried to sell me a crap idea you're completely sold on yourself: that of moral equivalence. With a Communist??? -- were you thinking when you wrote?? The kindest interpretation is you're being the advocatus diaboli.

When you finally understand there is no moral equivalence whatsoever between the partisans of freedom (me -- maybe, possibly, you; but I'll say it doesn't look much like it) and the partisans of unfreedom in the form of excessive government, then you will have gained much more wisdom than you show now.

Leftism always peddles these crap ideas -- that Big Government will solve social problems better than Small, that slavemongers have moral equivalence with the free peoples who don't want slavemongers running anything, let alone the lives of them and theirs, and on and on in examples almost too numerous to. It'd take a book, and many have been written.

This is why I'm not a leftist. Leftists, from what I can see, suffer mental dysfunctions that make them choose the worse choices. I'm just too smart to buy what they're selling. Been that way all my life, and God, there's a howling from the hard Left around here when I mention it. Let 'em; the Left as a whole is too stupid for me, and stupid ideas like "moral equivalency" remind me of just how poor the Left's mental battery really is. You in particular, Dana, lack the ideas and the intellectual horsepower to persuade me away from the path I understand to be right, when it comes to politics. I'm not even sure you understand how little you have to believe in. And yes, I think it's a pity. You might have done better.

You still could -- while there's life, there's hope -- but it will take a real epiphany.

[Griff]

I disagree with Dana on many things, but I find her commentary to be quite intelligent and honest. What you fail to see is that your passion for militarism carries the seed of totalitarianism. War-making is a big government solution.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The seed and a lot of fertilizer.