Not at all. I want out of Afghanistan so badly, I can taste it. Yet, I begrudgingly understood the logic of finishing the job.
What does that have to do with the point at hand?
Fighting in Afghanistan is very, very inconsistent with my ideology.
Wanting out of Afghanistan is a desire.
I never wanted to be there in the first place.
Considering the idea of finishing the job, even when it goes against your immediate emptional desire might be a good thing, but it doesn't deal with the idea of listening to and seriously addressing arguments from those with very different perspectives, unless its just such an argument that convinced you to change your mind (which seems unlikely to me, but its possible), and even then it would be a single case, set against countless cases of your using ad-hominem dismissive of anything from a libertarian or even vaguely conservative sources.
Agreeing to go along with Obama's plan took a lot for me. When I finally accepted it, it was for three reasons: unlike Bush, Obama is very competent and if anyone can get the job done satisfactorily, its him; secondly, it would be unfair to all involved for the US to pack up and leave abruptly; and thirdly Obama has given us an end date.
A conservative could tell you the sky is blue, and you apparently would start thinking its green.
A conservative could tell me the sky is blue and I would have to check it out thoroughly before believing it.
You want politicians of different ideologies to "work together", but you ideas about working together seem to be lets all brainstorm about how to adopt the liberal, progressive, big government, and/or Democratic, agenda. Really working together implies paying attention to other viewpoints and achieving some sort of consensus that your going to work for, not attacking anyone who doesn't agree with you as "the party of no".
First of all, I have given up on politicians of different ideologies working together particularly with the dishonesty that is so peculiar to conservative leaders. What I do want is when the very interests of this country are at stake........and that's not the case with every issue.....that our leaders set aside their differences and ideologies to come up with a resolution. Unfortunately, compromise is not a word in the conservative dictionary. |
