Epiphany

I had an Epiphany this morning that I guess I sort of instinctively knew, having worked very hard to make all of my positions consistent and non-hypocritical. Here it is: The position of the liberal hawks, in general, on the war, is far more grounded in morality than that of the neocons or anyone on the right. The current administration takes a view that war to overthrow a dictator is OK to spread liberty and freedom, as long as that dictator is hostile towards the US, making it therefore, in our interest. This dichotomy is, at its heart, defeatist, counterproductive, and hypocritical. It sets forth absolutes, then makes the US the sole arbiter of those absolutes, which, as everyone knows or should know, is folly, for absolutes are absolute. Only God can change an absolute, which God wouldn't do, because God is infallible and the absolutes were determined to be absolute with the creation of the world.

Freedom and liberty are by our nature absolutes. God created humans with liberty built in. As fallen humans, we are able to make moral choices. We are also able to make immoral choices. The creation of a government to detemine what is allowed and not allowed is purely the creation of man. While it may be guided to some extent by the great law giver Moses, taking dictation from God, the right, which so decries reading anything into the Constitution as far as a right to privacy or the constitutionality of a ban on sodomy or pornography, (arguing that, because these things are not specifically exempted, they are not protected) has no trouble reading a Biblical ban on these things into the Ten Commandments. While it's true my friends on the Right typically take passages of the Bible out of context, ignoring later modifications or downright contraditions (I'm thinking eye for an eye versus if you are struck on the cheek, turn also the other cheek, quite obviously structured, replete with facial references, to contradict the previous maxim), they have held p the 10 Commandments as a particularly concise summary of Biblical law. Never mind that a majority of the 10 are not now law. Let me get back to the war argument.

As a liberal Hawk, I believe overthrowing dictators is job one. Figuring out the best way to get rid of each one is difficult, but the role of the US should be a neverending quest to spread these absolutes.

More later. Have to get this up.