[Dark Skies]

Good article...lack of moral high ground is why the Democrats were such failures in the last election. Without it, one is just treading water.

[Valin]

the dubious need to depose the dictator Saddam Hussein in a world full of many equally bad dictators,

Equally bad dictators? Certainly there are some real bad guys in that line of work, but Saddam (IMO) really was in the elite class.

[TigersEye]

The reason the Vietnam War "won all the battles but lost the war" was because it lacked this sort of moral legitimacy both at home and in Vietnam.

That is utter nonsense. There were several reasons we "won all the battles but lost the war" in Vietnam and that is not even one of them. Quite the contrary actually.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Democrats too often claim the high ground because they are standing upon a mound of freshly covered cat excrement.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Faith will get you through the roughest of times.