Comments on: Tough Liberalism

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:11:02 +0000

In a nutshell: Why should Americans place any faith or value in the Democrats’ vision of what America is, or should be, when part of that vision is a reluctance to defend itself from foreign enemies?

By: kreiz

kreiz — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:35:20 +0000

Cal: you commented elsewhere that America may have to play bad cop (to Europe’s good cop). The Democratic Party would find this morally abhorrent, presumably because the threat of force reinforces our imperialistic image. This is more evidence of why Beinart’s hope is doomed. Too many Dems simply don’t understand the practical necessity of Bad Cop. It used to make me sad.. Now it makes me angry. In a face-to-face confrontation with a bully, they default to reason.

By: kreiz

kreiz — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:42:20 +0000

Beinart nails it: [Dems] do not fundamentally see the post-9/11 world through the prism of anti-totalitarianism…. They see it through the prism of anti-imperialism. ” For the Dems to become a majority party, this must change. I don’t see it happening, despite Beinart’s pleas.