Rob,
Is there a moral difference between one nation trying to foster democracy in self-defense and another nation trying to create a true theocracy? Please don’t be cute, and make smart aleck remarks about how the US is a theocracy because that would only be untenable on the face of things.
I suppose what you are saying about the looting is that we should have shot the looters. I happen to agree with that, but we were trying to be nice. So, I suppose if we do fail, we can chalk it up to an excess of niceness.
And now for the rest of the situation–I see a thin, wavering line of troops facing an onrushing horde of barbarians. And some start to cut and run even though logically they know it makes their death more certain, and dooms their friends. And then out rings a clear cry from Captain Crittenden and many like him.
“Stand! I say Stand! These brutes are beaten if we just stand!”
And so it is. The Left has very little left but ferocity.
