The Democratic Party has been labeled since the Vietnam hand wringing as soft on War. But the fact of the matter is, if for a minute either party's name is done away with and the focus is instead directed on certain imperatives and tendencies at certain specific moments in U.S. history then one will have to conclude that it isn't whatever purported party platform was being presented at the time, but being on the right side of history is the qualifier.
Starting with the Civil War the imperative practiced by the party of Lincoln was Progressive, hence Liberal. One which contemporary reaction it's measure Ann Coulter, Linda Ingraham would be hurling diatribes and epithets at. The rebellious South, which the Democratic Party is legatee would then be the hearth and haven of all your neo-cons with their intellectual Liberalism.
The mismanagement of World War I birthed the Titanic Apocalypse of World War II which was successfully prosecuted by a Democratic Administration. The Korean Conflict another mismanaged effort was under a Republican Administration . Then Vietnam with it's iconic roof top woe came to it's ignominious finals under Republican ineptitude.
The status quo of any context fear change not for any reason than the impression of not being able to account for it's conclusion. But as soon as some form of assurance is gleaned, then the phenomenon of the reactionaries now the vanguard for change is complete. Once again the Republicans and their critique of War and the Democrats reminds us of this fact. War is not a line item to be either approved or vetoed and Iraq is it's fact.
By Apropos
Sunday, March 23, 2008
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