I think, if you want to work for peace, that you need to find serious
answers to these serious questions, and stop playing the shill for
domestic and foreign politicians who would sell their country out in
return for political gain. That is, if you want peace, give me
something other than the sophomoric arguments of Michael Moore or
Barbara Streisand. Tell me what you are really willing to do in order
to achieve peace.

Bravo! Excellent post, all 'round.

And it points up a terrible, possibly mortal weakness in the Left in
general, at least since I was in college, some 25 years ago: They only
stand AGAINST things -- they never stand FOR things.

For the Left (or, if you prefer, for the sake of this discussion, the
anti-war movement) to answer your questions would require them to make
a stand four-square FOR something, which means that moral relativism --
their central philosophy -- would cease to function. In other words,
if nothing is "right" and nothing is "wrong" -- only varying shades of
gray -- how can you possibly ever decide that *anything* is worth
fighting for?

THAT, in a nutshell, is why the Democrats (in America) and the Left
(worldwide) can't seem to get any traction in the polls. Voters may
not be able to put it into words, but people intuitively understand
that only standing against things isn't a workable solution to
anything.
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