[LarryLied]

But cynicism and alienation do not make for a coherent liberal critique of the current administration or the war. And American democracy — and the world — is poorer for lack of that debate.

Dialectics is not a good in itself, Andrew. Sometimes right and wrong are as simple as, well, right and wrong.

[ODDITHER]

The left is far less interested in their agenda being carried forward as they are with the person carrying the agenda forward. This is quite interesting to watch because their value system used to be able to be described as "The ends justifies the means." Their current philosophy is the "The means justifies the ends." It is much more important to ensure that the person carrying their water bucket is a leftist than it is for the bucket of water to arrive safely. Their bucket could be empty or filled with poisoned water, and they would defend the water carrier. They would rather die of thurst or poison than allow a non-leftist to carry the bucket. If a non-leftist takes hold of the bucket on his own and carries it, the leftists will scream that they are dieing of thurst or are being poisoned rather than take a drink from the bucket.

[Draco]

Re #3; thanks, LarryLied, for that on point rejoinder to an otherwise excellent article.