The ever-excellent Cox & Forkum: Root Causes. There's a lot of great stuff in this post. Just check it out.
I'll quote this bit:
In Dean's announcement for candidacy he alluded to how he thinks America's military might should be used:
"The idea of America using its power solely for its own ends is not consistent with the idealistic moral force the world has known for over two centuries."
In other words, he considers it more "moral" and "idealistic" to use our military self-sacrificially and not to secure our national self-interests. To him it is better when our soldiers risk death for the sake of other countries than for the sake of America. I can think of few foreign policies more morally atrocious than that.
Dean's quote seems to be straight out of Conflict of Visions as an example of an unconstrained approach to politics.
Saturday, December 6, 2003
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