Re: "...Most conservatives would not find the Bush Administration similar to that of LBJ, since there are major differences on the military end. For example, we were attacked on our shores,"
>>> Gulf of Tonkin, anyone? Iraqi drone airplanes to attack America.... (By the way, I said Bush II reminded me of a cross between LBJ and Nixon, not that he was a doppleganger for LBJ... though I'm still waiting for him to pickup a hound dog by his ears, Bush's secrecy and executive privilege jones is VERY Nixonian....)
"and, right or wrong, deemed Iraq a key element of pacification of the Middle East, unlike in Vietnam, when there was no similar provocation ratcheting up security concerns."
>>> Domino Theory, anyone? ("First one, then the other nation falls to the Commies... next they are crossing the Rio Grande". Hell, they were using the same rationale still years later to support the Contras.) Vietnam was sold with EXACTLY the same reasons: a security threat to America.
"Similarly, there is no War on Poverty or Great Society initiative,"
>>> Expansion of Medicare to include drug coverage... the largest expansion of federal entitlement programs since the "Great Society" era.
"In my experience, libertarians are most inclined to ignore the finer points and paint with so broad a brush........'
>>> You mean things like support for a smaller federal government, lower & fairer taxes, and individual rights instead of "Big Mommie" or "Big Daddy" government? |
