[sendtoscott]

So the govt, and the liberals who push for govt programs, bear no responsibility for the result of socialist govt programs?

[Cultural Jihad]

So the Libertarians and other moral-liberals who proselytize selfishness, hedonism, do-your-own-thing-ism, self-destruction and valuelessness onto other people bear no responsibility for the result of their moral-liberal promulgation? Of course they do.

[Publius6961]

So the govt, and the liberals who push for govt programs, bear no responsibility for the result of socialist govt programs?

Of course not!
They mean well.

That's all that counts.

[BurkeanCyclist]

Sure they do. Just as conservatives bear responsibility (or more likely, the credit) for the results of conservative policy.

But liberals do not bear responsibility for a robbery committed by someone who is PO'ed because his taxes are too high. The individual who committed the crime bears reponsibility for the act he committed. That's what "individual responsibility" means. Individual responsibility for one's own actions is the opposite of collective responsibility for the actions of others, not the same, as the hornberger who wrote this piece suggests.

Is this penetrating at all?

And, by the way, to suggest that an act of war should motivate us to behave in ways our enemies would approve is borderline treasonous. It is tantamount to taking the side of our enemies.