Progressives and Disorder

WSJ On-line ^ | Dec. 30, 2014 | Staff

[Pontiac]

As the calendar turns toward the final two years of the Obama Presidency, this is a moment to consider the world it has produced. There is no formal Obama Doctrine that serves as the 44th President’s blueprint for America’s engagement with the world. But it is fair to say that Barack Obama brought into office a set of ideas associated with the progressive, or left-leaning, wing of the Democratic foreign-policy establishment.

“Leading from behind” was the phrase coined in 2011 by an Obama foreign-policy adviser to describe the President’s approach to the insurrection in Libya against Moammar Gaddafi. That phrase may have since entered the lexicon of derision, but it was intended as a succinct description of the progressive approach to U.S. foreign policy.

Radical Islamists are grabbing territory from U.S. allies in Yemen. They have overrun Libya’s capital and threaten its oil fields. Boko Haram in Nigeria, the kidnappers of some 275 schoolgirls in April, adopted the ISIL terror model. U.S. allies in the Middle East, such as Saudi Arabia and Jordan, are struggling to cope with the violence spreading out of Syria and Iraq.

Mr. Obama can only hope that the Afghan Taliban do not move now to retake Kandahar after he announced this week with premature bravado “the end of the combat mission.”

The crucial flaw in the Democratic left’s model of global governance is that it has little or no answer to containing or deterring the serious threats that emerge in any region of the world when the U.S. retreats from leadership.

[Pontiac]

Obama is a Foreign Policy nightmare come true. His actions could be the spark that ignites World War III.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Interesting but I am not allowed to read the rest of it.

[ansel12]

Mario Cuomo has died?

[Viking2002]

Progressives are a disorder!

[Pontiac]

Sorry WSJ doesn’t limit access to all of their Opinion pieces and I didn’t check this one.

[MtnClimber]

It is the never ending battle between good and evil.

[Pontiac]

I never realized he was alive.

Are demonic spirits considered living?

[Misterioso]

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. - Ayn Rand

[Zeppo]

For many WSJ articles behind the paywall, simply do a google search for the title, then click on the link in the google search results and you should be able to read the entire article.

[TigersEye]

Oh, it's a disorder alright.

Articles that explain how modern liberals suffer from a mental disorder.

• Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals "Think"
• Idiot Compassion
• The Secret to the Suicidal Liberal Mind
• Krauthammer "Democratic Realism" (Must read and bookmark!)
• Swedish Moonbats Suppress Knowledge of Communist Genocide
• Is Liberalism Political Madness?
• ARE LIBERALS CLINICALLY INSANE?
  Liberals clinically mad, concludes top psychiatrist
• Liberalism and the two roads to nihilism
• Liberalism is a Psychology
• A Theory of War by Other Means
  Political Thought as Evolutionary Psychology
  (a book written by FReeper AnonymousConservative)
• Why Liberals Think What They Do Victor Davis Hanson

[Zeppo]

The crucial flaw in the Democratic left’s model of global governance is that it has little or no answer to containing or deterring the serious threats that emerge in any region of the world when the U.S. retreats from leadership.

The author of this piece is dancing around the truth.

In actuality, the crucial flaw in the Democratic left’s model of global governance is that they hate everything that America stands for, and they actively work for America's defeat and the triumph of America's enemies. Obama's approach to foreign policy is an exemplar of that pathological mindset.

[Pontiac]

Thanks

It may take me a while to work through these.

[Pontiac]

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. - Ayn Rand

Oh I don’t know about that.

Genghis Khan I don’t believe had an altruistic bone in his body.

[Pontiac]

Mario Cuomo has died? Yep .

[Fester Chugabrew]

Chaos vs. Order
Epicureans vs. Stoics

This fairly well embraces the world’s mindset. Those on the left should not be allowed a say in public policy if we want civilization to thrive. Let them be objects of entertainment and ridicule. Grant them rule and authority at your own peril.

[Misterioso]

Wikipedia: He was a tengrist. But he was religiously tolerant and interested in learning philosophical and moral lessons from other religions. To do so, he consulted Buddhist monks, Muslims, Christian missionaries, and the Taoist monk Qiu Chuji.[20] The Secret History of the Mongols chronicles Genghis praying to the Eternal Blue Sky on the Burhan Haldun mountain.

[Pontiac]

He was a tengrist. But he was religiously tolerant and interested in learning philosophical and moral lessons from other religions.

Tengrism is a polytheistic religion and most polytheist are religiously tolerant owing to the fact that they have multiple gods so what is one more?

This hardly equates to being altruistic. Khan was fine with you worshiping whatever god you wanted as long as you paid your taxes (tribute) and did what he told you to do.

[Nifster]

WSJ is cowardly....instead of calling commies commies they call them progressives

[Pontiac]

WSJ is cowardly....instead of calling commies commies they call them progressives

I don’t think it is cowardice but rather just avoiding confusion.

The Commiecrats call themselves Progressives so that is who the reading public know them as.

[Misterioso]

OK. Scratch Genghis. ☺