A Good Word about Conservatives???

What good can I, a stark raving moderate, say about conservatives?

Saying something good about conservatives? That's crazy talk, boy, CRAZY TALK.

But still, I've actually had a positive thought about that bunch of nuts. As much as I oppose their war - the defining action of the Bush administration - the motive for the war is, in some strange sense, commendable.

Not that our professed attempt to impose democracy on Iraq by means of military might isn't insane - it is. A great number of Bush administration officials should go to jail over that one. But the cynical and probably true reason for the war is that people like Rumsfeld and the hawkish neo-cons have actually taken a farsighted look at the problems we Americans will face in this new century. Oil is running out. There will be increasing competition and instability in the world as supply falls far beneath demand. Rummy's crowd has at least had the sense to recognize this problem in private. They are acting to position the US to prevail when the competition becomes most intense.

"Operation Iraqi Liberation" (O.I.L) is their early response to the coming crisis. And unless good somehow prevails, wars in Iran and Venezuela may be next. But while you can say the current and coming wars are stupid and even criminal, they have the virtue of at least being attempts to gain a playable position in the chess game with China, India and yes, Europe, that is sure to come.

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Random Thoughts:

"H.W.J.V." - How Would Jesus Vote
Liberal, Republican?
(by hanging chad. Of course the vote would be disqualified after the inability of election officials to validate an address of Heaven as being within the district...)