During the debate last night Senator Kerry was thrown the softball question, "What is the greatest threat to US Security today?" Kerry, with the speed that made me think at first he must have known the quetion ahead of time, answered "Nuclear Proliferation."
This is the normal, and expected reaction of liberals: it is things that are bad, not people. This is simply gun control expanded to the world stage. It's these bad weapons that are the danger. In his meandering answer on this question he never mentioned the evil people, their evil religious-philosophical drive and the surpassing need to change the minds of people. This is perhaps the most destructive aspect of liberalism both politically and theologically.
Politically, liberals conversely do not really believe people are bad, but they are incapable of helping themselves so the answer is to give them things; if they have good things, they will be good (but not too many good things or then they become Republicans). But when it comes to "bad" things (SUV's, guns, nuculear devices, etc.) since they are really not bad the answer is to take these things away from people, then they will be OK. As a result liberalism always moves towards socialism, because they ultimately believe that people really "don't know" what's good for them; so government needs to decide for them. This is the bankruptcy of liberal-democratic forgein policy, they want to center on "things" not people. People need to have their minds changed, their world view changed and their attitudes changed; not, primarily have bad things taken away from them or good things given to them.
When Preident William McKinley declared war on the Spanish Empire, part of his rationale was to help "spread Christianity to the beknighted people of the world." (Can you imagine if President Bush quoted McKinley today!) He understood, where John Kerry does not, that evil systems, whether political, philosophical, or religious need to be destroyed before the people trapped in those systems can be freed and set on a new course. Ultimately radical Islamic Terrorism needs to be destroyed, then the Islamic countries need to be made to accept religious pluralism and then the message of the Gospel can ultimately change people.
Posted by Narnia3 at October 1, 2004 4:34 PM | TrackBack