Forgive me for saying so, but your liberal sanctimony is growing old. First you put the word progressive in quotes, as if disagreeing with you invalidated my progressive credentials. Now you attempt to slander me with the word "conservative", as if that is not meaningless gibberish from someone who takes the most naive position and defends it as "progressivism". It's not progressive because it's not thoughtful. It's YOU who is not progressive.
Let me say it plainly, I've been too vague out of regard for your feelings. The very idea of calling the US "barbaric" for what we did in Afghanistan, is absurd and shockingly juvenile.
There are other possible ways to change bad behaviors in countries besides bombing them and such (even if it is deemed a little less barbaric than those bad behaviors).
Hey, we finally agree on something. When we disgree with their behavior, as in marrying children or treating apparently willing women like slaves, we don't bomb them for that. We sanction them and call them out on the international stage. When their behavior is flying planes into our buildings, sanctions are no longer an option. At that point, some very deserving guys in Afghanistan must certainly receive a thank you note taped to an American missile.
Philosophy, like the no war delusion, are harming the Left's intellectual credibility. It's one thing to say you wish there were no wars. It's another to believe that's feasible, given the existing climate. Save the word barbarism for those who truly deserve it.
It's like calling drone strikes progressive. Is intentionally killing people ever progressive? I don't think so.
Some times it IS progressive, it's just not polite. Some times a bad person's continued existence on this planet is unthinkable. And, when you're talking about violent, entitled, entrenched religious extremists, I think it's incumbent upon us to do the only thing that CAN really change their minds. El kaboom.
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