[Hack&Lube]

I never said that was my personal philosophy. That was the point of the article summed up, the author was saying: "Bush had the wrong reasons but thank God he acted on his gumption and did something, therefore validating a few sentences I wrote here and there so I didn't have to retract all those articles I wrote" + some stuff about coalitions of competing political factions vs centralized and concentrated power turning the tide in the Middle East.

The "righties" referred to the in the article are actually neo-conservatives...or as one of its principals remarked were "liberals who were mugged by reality". Lefties that are faced with the understanding of the human capacity for evil and that leads to Manichaeism (world in a perpetual struggle between good and evil). This is where the affirmative strike, preemptive action come in and the struggle against the new liberalism of isolationism, appeasment, pacifism, etc. They believe that peace, secruity, stability, etc. cannot come from a process. IE: "new liberalism" and "leftist" policies can be faulted by looking at events like the failure of the U.N. to do anything in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 90s.

Maybe you should read the article before you make conclusions about what the right and left mean in context of the discussion. I am however sorry that I was blunt and ambiguous when I first posted it.

Another unmanageable, inconsequential, wishful statement meant to propagandize, with seemingly no point or reason.

In the context of the article. The author is saying that if he gets caught under a totalitarian regime. He'd rather have the Washington neocon political and military complex on his side than the Free Tibet people protesting outside the Chinese Embassy.

Uh huh. Lenin and Mao were 'Lefties', and I think the world probably remembers who they are. Kennedy was a Democrat, as was Lyndon Johnson. Hitler was a 'Rightie', and he really changed the world, so I suppose in that sense you're (accidentally) right.

Again, it's my fault I wasn't clear. I was speaking more in the international relations and foreign policy sense. I would never try to detract from the Civil Rights movement or Johnson's incredible efforts in bringing about this reform. And yes definetely Kennedy was integral to the origins of detente. But in context of the article, lefties doesn't correspond to the social left of the political spectrum, but are more the "new liberals" or constructionists. In fact, many neoconservatives were originally and still associate themselves with the social left.