[humint]

Leave the "morals & ethics" to the philosophers and Holy Men - The governments job is to print money, build roads, maintain infrastructure, provide for defense and keep "a semi-level" playing field between the states. Mixing "morality & ethics" with the power of government is a recipe for disaster...

Have you read the Declaration of Independence, Constitution or Bill of Rights lately? Those documents are full of philosophy, morality and ethical platitudes. The reality is that nation building and nation maintenance requires passionate commitment to the greater good and dispassionate knowledge of (as well as the ability to articulate the results of) current American policy. A serious setback in the GWOT has been a deficit of ideologically confident Americans. A further setback has been the steady assault on the minority of ideological Americans by stereotyping them all as “neocons”. If you’ve read anything about American history you'd know that we didn't get here by dispassionately building roads and power plants.

[wku man]

Hear, hear. I think it was DeToqueville (sp?) that said we would be a great nation only as long as we were a good people. Our entire system of laws is based on morals and values...you couldn't have one without them.

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