| #2 Liberals and Democrats probably support this military intervention. As I pointed out in this blog entry, the Left does, in fact, support warfare and military intervention... More often, in fact, than many conservatives and Republicans. But liberals support using our military, and large amounts of our federal tax dollars, to accomplish Wilsonian, idealistic, objectives - not strictly for purposes of national defense. As that blog entry points out, many liberals and Democrats supported the Iraq war, for liberal reasons. That entry also links to material showing that both conservative and liberal supporters of the Iraq war have pointed out that support for pre-emptive warfare against foreign regimes is rooted in left-wing and Democratic foreign policy philosophies. |