Chris's Rants

Friday, May 21, 2004

America's core values

Cynthia Tucker has a good op-ed piece from yesterday with a brilliant quote:
"'To announce that there must be no criticism of the president ... right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.' -- Teddy Roosevelt, 1918"
Damn straight! I am sooo sick of the administration's lackeys (right-wing pundits), and certain of its principle members (e.g. Cheney), suggesting that it is either unpatriotic or counter-productive to question its (in)actions and/or policies. How can we hope to spread American democracy and ideals to the likes of Iraq when those who have taken it upon themselves to impose that freedom and democracy (by force) have such disregard and/or ignorance of those very ideals?

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