Howard Dean is saying the US has lost the moral high ground by going to Iraq. Aren't liberals supposed to think morality is relative? Or something like that? Anyway, Jeff at proteinwisdom.com sums it up really well:
Ah, how I do so love DNC calculus. To wit: freeing 50 million people from totalitarian regimes and spreading democracy = loss of moral high ground; pandering for international “respect” from those who took money from Saddam in exchange for blocking the way for the destruction of his regime = moral high ground.
Dean also fantasizes about an alternate utopian universe where Democrats would have prevented conflict between Israel and the terrorists by working on it day after day.
If you think what’s going on in the Middle East today would be going on if the Democrats were in control, it wouldn’t, because we would have worked day after day after day to make sure we didn’t get where we are today.
That's OK Howie, here in the real world, Israel is now working on it day after day after day to make sure it won't happen again. In the following breath, Dean lets of with:
We would have had the moral authority that Bill Clinton had when he brought together the Northern Irish and the IRA, when he brought together the Israelis and the Palestinians.”
If President Clinton did such a bang-up job bringing Israel and the Arabs together, why would you have needed to work on it day after day after day after day for the last six years?
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