Anti-Climacus

FIRST THINGS: Another insightful piece on war with Iraq and its meaning. We're hitting serious gut-check time, people.

I was originally going to title this post "The Democrats' Me Problem," and go on at some length about why it's looking increasingly likely that I will not vote for one come 2004 (for President, anyway). Simply put, too many of the people who should possess clarity--political, if not moral--seem to have totally lost sense of themselves. I believe I can speak authoritatively for David and myself on this issue, since I think we march lockstep on it. Regardless of what you think of the Bush administration, or the current international political scene, it should be obvious that a free Iraq is a good thing. I believe no sophisticated analysis is needed to establish this claim:

"--That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among them, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed--"

as Thomas Jefferson so rightly put it. Saddam Hussein represents a government that is no government at all, merely a cabal dedicated to the repression of the Iraqi people. It is an illegitimate government. If you truly love and value liberty, you must ask where the cause of liberty lay, and follow it as circumstances and exegencies permit. There is no larger political program required, nor should there be: there is only the voice of your own conscience.