Ah, The Good Old Days
Back in the days when being a Democrat didn’t automatically mean you were anti-American and anti-War.
War, in and of itself, isn’t bad. It’s the motivation behind it that colors it.
Gagdad Bob of One Cosmos posts “Announcing a New 12-Step Program for the Left: Apparatchiks Anonymous” The entire post is very interesting. What caused me to think about the “good old days” was this quote he used from JFK’s (That’s John F. Kennedy, not John F. Kerry) innaugural speech:
“[T]he same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe — the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
That was when people like Henry “Scoop” Jackson were Democrats. Worthy opponents in the contest of ideas that politics is supposed to be in the US.“To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required…
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