What’s up with so many Democrats wanting missile strikes on
Syria, while Republicans balk? I’m told Republicans are the war
party.
Is this just hypocrisy? Politicians change their position on military intervention when their own party controls the White House?
Historian Thaddeus Russell says it’s not. He says it’s always been “progressive” Democrats who led America into war: Woodrow Wilson in World War I, FDR in World War II, Truman in the Korean War, Kennedy and Johnson in Vietnam and Bill Clinton in Somalia and Kosovo.
Russell says the progressives like “nation-building” because it fits their view that government can reform the world “not just in the ghettos, but outside our borders. Anywhere we find the oppressed, we must go out and save them.”
Of course there are the neoconservatives, such as William Kristol, who were pro-war under both Bush and Obama.
http://reason.com/archives/2013/09/18/make-trade-not-war
Is this just hypocrisy? Politicians change their position on military intervention when their own party controls the White House?
Historian Thaddeus Russell says it’s not. He says it’s always been “progressive” Democrats who led America into war: Woodrow Wilson in World War I, FDR in World War II, Truman in the Korean War, Kennedy and Johnson in Vietnam and Bill Clinton in Somalia and Kosovo.
Russell says the progressives like “nation-building” because it fits their view that government can reform the world “not just in the ghettos, but outside our borders. Anywhere we find the oppressed, we must go out and save them.”
Of course there are the neoconservatives, such as William Kristol, who were pro-war under both Bush and Obama.
http://reason.com/archives/2013/09/18/make-trade-not-war
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