Oh, I can just see their useful input:
Blocking oil exploration along the scenic Shatt-Al-Arab waterway.
Guaranteeing rights to gay Iraqis
Blocking cleanup of a chemical weapons site because an endangered newt lives there.
Instilling the same level of excellence in post-Saddam public schools that we have here in the United States
Yep, liberals can do so much for Iraq!
The term 'liberal' used to have a quite different connotation. It used to be applied to those wishing to ease restrictions in our culture. Applied to the assimilation of other nationalities entering this country and our fellow minority citizens, it defined those willing to accept and assimilate 'others' as fellow citizens. Too quickly that willingness shifted to embracing 'immigrant' languages in such fullness that programs which used these 'other tongues'had to be instituted for minority comfort, instead of requiring they learn and apply correct English as the primary language of America.
The resulting shifts, from being liberal in acceptance of others, too quickly turned into liberalism, with resulting denegration of the culture in place, seeking to alter the culture to empower all manner of minority views, corroding the collective culture in favor of radically changing the culture, to reflect some ghostly 'bigger tent' filled with special interest groups easily manipulated for voting blocks. The result was a loss of the original culture, the inability of the culture to change slowly so that the values proven to work no longer gave worth to the changing paradigm.
Liberalizing America, as if acquiring a comely tan, mutated quickly into liberalism, an insidious cancer that now threatens the life of the nation as we slide toward all manner of immoral and, in some cases, inhuman practices.
What caused this mutation?... Political correctness, as an imperious tool that served to stifle opposition in the slide toward immorality/amorality. As example, what did the clinton defenders use to stifle voices opposed to the continuance of a moral degenerate in our White House?... 'He who is without sin, cast the first stone' and 'Judge not that you may be judged'. It was demonically brillaint, but just as incorrect for application to the reality. It was a gross manifestation of political correctness run amok! Think: what if the same standard were applied to judges and police and ... well, to any elected representative tasked with writing law? And, after all, who is the sovereign of this nation? Is it not We the People? Do we not have the right to demand moral behavior from our elected representatives? Of course we do, and without being perfect in our own moral stature! It's the fundamental right of the sovereigns to establish the limits of behavior beyond which we the people will not be tolerant.
With Liberalism, tolerance is the whoring bedfellow of political correctness, applying sleazy assumption regarding intent for the partnership.
Will America re-assert a demand for morality, in our elected representatives, in our public servants, in our cultural icons, and in our own behavior as fellow citizens? If we don't, this nation as so conceived by our Founders, will not much longer endure.
As we seek to operate on the basis of a new paradigm of pre-emption and/or regime change for endangering terrorist sponsoring states, our international posture will fail to hold that which our honorable Soldiers have achieved, if We the People do not learn to value a higher moral stature than what we've slipped to under the guise of tolerance and 'liberal civility'. Never miss the reality that Liberalism has a totalitarian aspect to it, an intolerance where demands for morality and humanity are raised. Abortion on demand is the classic example of this totalitarian mindset; 'choice' is applied only to a woman, never to the alive babies waiting to be born ... and therein rises a holocaust. and one last example, regarding Islam as a major religion in America: we the People are called to be tolerant of Islamic practice ... as long as that practice does not serve to seditiously and violently undermine our Constitutional and moral rights. Freedom of religion does not demand that we be tolerant of religious practices that threaten OUR Republic's survival.