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Benjamin Duffy:

The easiest way to tell the difference between a liberal and a leftist is that a liberal cheers against his country only when a Republican is in the White House, while a leftist cheers against his country all of the time.

Take the 1999 Kosovo War, for example. If you’ll remember correctly, the man in the White House at the time was Bill Clinton, a man who liberals believed could do no wrong. The Clinton State Department was unable to rally the UN Security Council to support the operation, so Clinton simply went ahead with it over international objections. The veto-wielding Russian Federation would have squashed any such mission to Kosovo if it had been given the chance, and it continued to protest the operation until its end.

If you believe that all military actions must be explicitly sanctioned by the almighty United Nations, you’d have to conclude that the Kosovo War was illegal under international law. So if the war in Kosovo was illegal, does that make Clinton and his administration “war criminals?” If you ask a liberal that question, he will say no. Ask a leftist, and he will say yes.

Therein lays the difference between a liberal and a leftist. Liberals are constantly contradicting themselves, and it’s quite easy to prove that they lack any true principles. Their appraisal of any particular action hinges on who’s doing it. The good guys (Democrats) are always right, and the bad guys (Republicans) are always wrong. Simply change the party in power, and liberals will change their minds on just about everything.

Leftists on the other hand, are a lot more consistent. They’re consistently wrong, venomous, anti-American and misguided, but at least they’re consistent. No matter who is in power, you can expect the leftists to take to the streets denouncing this guy or that guy as a “war criminal.”

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For all of you liberals out there who say that this war in Iraq is illegal, I say go arrest Bill Clinton. Arrest Wesley Clark, the supreme NATO commander in Kosovo and hero of the Democratic Party’s left-wing. Once they’re being taken away in handcuffs, we can discuss what to do with Bush and Rumsfeld.

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This entry was posted by rightwingprof on February 23, 2007 at 10:15 am under Wackjobs, GWOT. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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