What Do You Care About More?

Progress in the middle east or bashing bush? It is undeniable that things in the middle east are looking up (two steps forward, one step back)...granted, this may be short lived....but it also may be long lived. The great example, via the link, is the fall of the Soviet Union. It started by democratic movements in "obvious" countries, Poland and Hungary, and quickly spread to the fall of the USSR.

Will the LEFT acknowledge this is a direct result of our Iraq policy? Will they deny that these are substantive changes?

Right now, I bet most "liberals" (=LEFT) don't even read this news...or care all that much...because it's anger towards Bush which the LEFT care about, not progress for people in the middle east.

Quick update: I use the term LEFT to distinguish between political liberals (NOT the JS Mill liberal), whom I believe share the fundamental belief that the role of government is to extend liberty and opportunity to people...and the LEFT, which is mostly concerned with removing Bush from power and in a broader sense, counter-balancing American power - economic, military, etc.

Another update: What then is a political liberal versus a political conservative...well, a conservative thinks the role of government is to protect the status quo and private property...the idea being "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." A great example is affirmative action...liberals think it ought to be law to offer opportunities to previously disadvantaged groups. Conservatives think it is the role of private groups to decide whether they want to offer opportunities to disadvantaged groups. They argue, government alone, cannot solve the problem of equal opportunity, that it is much more efficient and substantive for the private sector to acknowledge equality of opportunity. Government interference in such matters, they argue, merely creates a layer of bureaucracy and imposes a specific set of values to an already sticky issue.