XPost: alt.fan.j-garofalo, alt.atheism, alt.radio.talk   
   XPost: seattle.politics   
      
   On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:37:55 GMT, "Christopher Helms"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Anyway, by degrees I slowly realized that the world is nowhere near as   
   >simple as conservatives would have us believe. It would be great if every   
   >problem could be solved with either a tax cut or a smart bomb. I wish the   
   >world was like that and maybe that will to believe is what makes Rush, Fox   
   >News etc. so popular. Maybe the entire conservative movement is some sort of   
   >a collective prayer or the expression of a desire to return to a world that   
   >simply doesn't exist anymore, assuming it ever really did.   
      
      
   I'm impressed. Seriously.  I wish more conservatives (and liberals)   
   understood this.   
      
   Dogma generally and Conservatism specifically is about simple answers   
   so you don't have to worry or think.   But simple answers can get you   
   into complex messes. And they won't get you out. Iraq is a fine   
   example of that. No welcoming parades. No oil paying for everything. A   
   nascent civil war, threatening to destabilize the entire region,   
   allienating our allies, and a great risk that we've set up the next   
   fundamentalist Shia state. And that's just for starters.   
      
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