Quote:
justify this position...Liberals have been the first to go to war in a just cause eh? Please tell me what a "just cause" is...
and tell me mate - you pick and choose when violence is acceptable to you...tell me - what criteria do you use?
|
The most obvious case of a liberal "just cause" was, of course, Hitler. Many on the left were ready to come to the aid of those fighting him, if not join in directly, long before the political antecedents of the contemporary neo-cons were forced into war by the Japanese attack and subsequent declaration of war by Hitler.
Then, of course, there is the whole damned Vietnam debacle. The original backers of military assistance to South Vietnam were the much despised Eastern (mostly Catholic) liberals such as the Kennedys.
Most recently, I suppose, would be the mission in Bosnia.