Liberalism, Pacifism, and Afghanistan: The "recaptured" moral highground.

Let's talk about stereotypes. When I say Liberal foreign policy, the auto-response from Conservatives will consist of key words like "weak", "naive," or "hippies." The Left is very famous for its Vietnam antics and most recently the opposition of Iraq War II. Yet it is very inarticulate to categorize the majority of liberals as anti-war. To the contrary, some of our greatest war leaders were "Liberals" of their time. It is hard to call the founding fathers anything but radical, rebelling against the established British Empire, or Lincoln as he waged the most brutal war in history against the established order(although industrialization not abolitionist feelings is the order I am referring to). Take Woodrow Wilson, the quintessential Liberal when it comes to diplomacy, yet he had absolutely no reservations about spending American blood in old Europe. Do I really even have to mention FDR? So, clearly Liberals do like war when it suits their agenda and when they are in charge. It is when the opposition party starts a war that it becomes a problem. Wars can make or break a party for a long time depending on their outcome. It is hypocritical to call Bush 2 an Imperialist for only maintaining the empire built by the liberal's wars before them. It is clearly not evil to expand our country's international power or why have progressives done it with such vigor and excellence for the past 200 plus years? Until Reagan took office and finished off the Soviets, it was often the Paleo-Conservatives that opposed outside diplomatic ties and especially overseas wars.

We have evidence of this secret liberal love of wars they deem "just" today in Obama's authorizing of 17,000 Marines to Afghanistan. The commanding general made remarks that he expected to be in full combat operations for at least 5 more years....yet no liberal outrage. Where is the talk of quagmires? Where is Osama? Show me the smoking gun! No, it was reported as a wise decision by the omnipotent Obama. Where are the anti-war rallies at now? Have you heard about the daily death toll in Afghanistan every single evening on the nightly news? No, and you won't.
Also, Pacifist are not always liberals. The anti-war crowd of the democratic party is simply a large gathering of shrill, ignorant, hippies who fail to realize the democratic party is just as much interested in combat activities as the Republican Party. They just know how to sell it better to the press and academia.

There are a faction of Pacifist conservatives, mainly due to Christian or other religious faith who simply cannot support war from a religious standpoint no matter who is in charge. I have the utmost respect for this group as their stance is constant through the decades. There were Quakers opposed to the Civil War for such reasons, and they will be against the Afghanistan conflict for the same reasons. Consistency is honesty and they are a testament to that fact.

I ask Conservatives not to attack the modern Democratic party as being weak stomached, but as shamelessly opportunistic. That being said, I still want the Left to win the war and expect conservatives to support our combat efforts in Afghanistan, even when it comes politically viable to oppose them. This country needs at least one loyal opposition party afterall.