[IMC-Editorial] Letter on the debate between the Democratic presidential candidates

[David Holcberg, The Ayn Rand Institute]

Dear Editor:

After listening to the debate between the Democratic presidential
candidates, one conclusion is inescapable: they couldn't care less
about America's security. 

If they did, they would have criticized Bush--not for attacking Iraq,
but for not also attacking Saudi Arabia and Iran. Not for failing to
find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but for failing to identify
militant Islam as our ideological enemy. Not for going to war against
the wishes of the United Nations, but for even considering U.N.
approval. Not for spending too much on the war on terror, but for
spending too little. Not for failing to prevent the September 11
terrorist attacks, but for failing to act forcefully enough to prevent
the next ones. 

But if Democrats changed their rhetoric and criticized Bush for all
the above they would have to embrace self-interest as the basis for
American foreign policy. But then they wouldn't be proper leftists,
would they?
 
David Holcberg
Ayn Rand Institute

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