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> He's not making a humble, leftish point about our moral failures in foreign policy! How is that point leftish in any way? The left are not defined by the id
by Ntrails 10y ago
> He's not making a humble, leftish point about our moral failures in foreign policy!
How is that point leftish in any way? The left are not defined by the idea that there is a moral good and a moral bad, and they want the moral good. Left good Right bad is one of the most infuriating assertions to see casually chucked into a sentence.
You're right, of course, that he wasn't trying to suggest that America should pay for it's sins or change it's attitude/foreign policy. I happily acknowledge that you think it's worse to murder high profile people in your own country compared to, say, exploding nobodies in a foreign one. I'll at least argue that the president being honest about them both being murder is pretty refreshing
- dcposch 10y ago> Left good Right bad is one of the most infuriating assertions to see casually chucked into a sentence. i didnt say that. it just happens that in American politics, admitting that our foreign policy has been amoral is something done almost exclusively by the left. writers like noam chomsky, glenn greenwald, jeremy scahill. politicians like tulsi gabbard. etc. that's why i called it a "leftish point" politicians on the right, even when they favor less foreign intervention, tend to justify it in terms of cost savings, constitutional limits, and smaller government. rand paul, for example.