re: #76 erik_t

Recent Republican leadership hasn’t been Right Wing, it’s been Crazy Wing. They were against intervention in Libya for the sole reason that Obama was for it. I expect the same to happen in Syria if it comes to that. Their philosophy, as discussed above, has no real relation to any given fact on any given day.

Back when we had two parties that had sane, principled and rational worldviews, there was no real history of one party or the other being more or less willing to fight a police action or a war. Clinton took us into the Balkans multiple times. Bush I took us to Iraq. Reagan took us to Grenada. Kennedy and Johnson to Vietnam. Truman to Korea.

Ah - you’re speaking much “larger” than I was. I was really just comparing Pres Obama vs SOS Clinton during the primary wars. Although I always felt they were both moderates, Pres Obama was considered more liberal than SOS Clinton except on this one issue.