[tet68]

- because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty."

That's essentially a cultural argument, and one artfully in tune both with white rural male gun nuts who resent Democratic predations on their own liberty and with newer, younger, 9/11 Republican converts who think the way to stop Islamic terrorism is to fix the problem at source. And the pretzel contortions of the Democratic candidates can't match it.

Oddly enough,"stability purchased at the expense of Liberty"
was a sentiment our founding fathers found distasteful also.

"Is Life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!" ~Patrick Henry.

[alwaysconservative]

Big bump for your posts 20, 21, and 26!

[alrea]

"Is Life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!" ~Patrick Henry.

what's needed in the middle east are some local heros.