It’s why Lincoln is considered our greatest president
Jonah Goldberg makes perfect sense in his Civil War Doesn’t Mean It’s Over - What’s so wrong with taking sides? He notes that the now trendy excuse - as popularized by defeatist John Murtha - to cut and run in Iraq is that we are “caught in a civil war” - “as if this is the geopolitical equivalent of ‘I’ve fallen and can’t get up.’”
Goldberg goes on to note that Joe Biden, the master of “open mouth, insert foot,” screamed out on the Senate floor: “I’m so tired of hearing on this floor about courage. Have the courage to tell the administration, ‘Stop this ridiculous policy you have.’ We’re taking sides in a civil war!”
We are? How terrible of us! Does Biden not have an opinion on which side was right and which side was wrong in our own American Civil War? Consider the honor with which we regard Lincoln and it is clear that all but the most vilely racist throwbacks are glad the North won.
Goldberg makes the point that many liberals want us to intervene in certain other civil wars as well- so why not this one? Check it out and appreciate the logic of the piece.
November 12th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
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