That us such a great line. And, so very true.
Perhaps that is because a serious critique would arise from conservative sensibilities, including respect for the law of unintended consequences, and the fact that a government's ability to control events anywhere is severely limited because a community, a nation and the world are like mobiles--jiggle something here, and lots of things are set in motion over there.
True. For conservatives opposed to the war with Iraq it is impossible to stand with the left in any sort of serious coalition of common purpose since their anti war "arguments" are absurd bromides amd their motivation is out of hatred for either America or Bush personally.
The only serious arguments against the war come from the right.
What else can they use? It would be political suicide for them to tell the truth and say "we will do ANYTHING including ruining the country to destroy the Republicans agenda to maintain our power base because that's all that is important to us" wouldn't it?