Letter to the Editor: Defending conservatives

Or maybe nobody wants to gratify such a juvenile attack with anything more public than this comment on the UDK website.

I'd also suggest you study your Iranian history. Carter had nothing to do with pushing out the Shah. Of course, if you acknowledge that you have one less way of criticizing liberals, which you seem determined to do at the expense of anything else (like provide a rational argument that doesn't partially hinge on "The West Wing").

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• Posted by thatonedude on October 29, 2009 at 12:51 p.m.
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Letter to the Editor: Defending conservatives

Oh Calvin, thanks for the lulz. I know it was written to be serious, but it sure gave me a good laugh on this gloomy afternoon.

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• Posted by G_E on October 29, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.
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Letter to the Editor: Defending conservatives

Calvin, you are not defending anything, you are attacking right back. tsk tsk. That is all.

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• Posted by domoking on October 29, 2009 at 5:45 p.m.
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Letter to the Editor: Defending conservatives

I think one of the problems with this letter is that the author demonstrates no grasp of what "liberalism" and "conservatism" actually are.

I've said it before, and now I'll say it again.

NEITHER OUTLOOK IS INHERENTLY EVIL

FDR was an incredibly liberal president that that pulled America from the depression and yet thrust us into World War II.

Reagan was a conservative who walked a tight rope for two terms and somehow kept the world's two superpowers from annihilating the globe.

...and linguo.

take off your glasses. The world isn't black and white, and not every conservative is "ignorant."

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• Posted by Z on October 29, 2009 at 11:42 p.m.
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Let's then look at the benefits the so-called conservative party have offered in the international arena.

1) The Reagan administration armed both Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. 2) If the conservatives at the time would have had their way during the Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear holocaust would have obliterated the entire world. 3) The past eight years, internationally speaking. Even assuming that Hussein deserved to be deposed, rushing an invasion and then evacuating almost (but not all) of the troops out of the country and letting the remainder be slaughtered by insurgents before finally starting a surge is not effective policy.

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• Posted by xz007 on October 30, 2009 at 8:46 p.m.
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Letter to the Editor: Defending conservatives

My goal here isn't to defend conservatives. I'd be the first to admit that the Presidents Bush have both largely been failures when it comes to foreign policy.

However, you have no clue regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis. You can speculate all you want on what MIGHT have happened but you are evoking an image that can't possibly be proven right or wrong to try and support your argument.

Yes the Reagan administration armed Hussein and bin Laden. But Clinton gave China a jump start in nuclear energy. If things ever sour with China things could get interesting so I don't feel that argument holds all that much weight.

Plus, you seem to be insinuating that Hussein and bin Laden were somehow products of conservatism. I'm not going to dwell on this too much and just assumed that I'm looking to far into this.

In regards to the withdrawal from Iraq. I agree. I wish congress had listened to the military leaders in how to proceed.

One more point of my own...

I would caution people against holding the Bush administration up as a shining example of conservative leadership. I think we can all agree, conservative and liberal alike, that Bush's leadership was lacking several areas. (I'm putting it lightly but I don't want this discussion to devolve into a Bush bash-fest so lets end it here).

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• Posted by Z on October 31, 2009 at 12:44 a.m.
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I'm sorry you are all so misinformed. I didn't have that chance. When the students took over our embassy I was Pakistan. 48 hours later I was in the Persian Gulf just off the coast of Iran. It seems that Jimmy Carter forced the Shah to allow the Aytollah back into Iran or have any aid cut off from the country. This makes Yassir Arafat the father of "modern" terrorism and Jimmy Carter the "godfather". You could look the facts up but I lived them. My uncle also worked for the Shah as a Green Beret so we have the knowledge.

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• Posted by CalvinO on February 22, 2010 at 6:20 p.m.
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