To: Ilaine who wrote (60817 ) 12/9/2002 11:55:33 PM From: Nadine Carroll Read Replies (2) | Respond to Jonah Goldberg thinks that the Left has crippled itself with an overriding fear of hypocrisy, which it prevents it from supporting any conservative cause, even if it will aid a liberal goal, because it is done for the wrong reasons:In my current syndicated column, I complain about the tendency among liberals to argue that no liberal end should be pursued if it might also result in achieving a conservative end — or, heaven forbid, require employing conservative means. Conservatives argue that foreign policy should be conducted out of self-interest but throughout the 1990s antiwar liberals could only find enthusiasm for conflicts which were explicitly not in our national interest. Somalia and Haiti were glorious triumphs of American foreign policy. The Gulf War was tainted because it actually aligned with American interests. nationalreview.com Two weeks ago, I argued on these pages that, while the action being planned by the US and Britain against Iraq is wholly unjust and must be resisted, it would be possible to conceive of a just war against its government, if the sole aim was to help the nation's oppressed people deliver themselves from dictatorship, if the states prosecuting that war were not themselves the principal sources of global violence and had nothing to gain from invasion, and if the non-violent means of achieving the same outcome had first been exhausted. guardian.co.uk
