Pro-Life Not Just Stylish
It sounds like Ann Lewinson [Film: “She’s Having a Baby,” Dec. 27, 2007] is disappointed that Juno did not abort her baby in the new, critically acclaimed comedy (“It’s no coincidence there have been two comedies this year about unmarried women who decide to carry their babies to term. We are, after all, in the seventh year of Bush’s conservative agenda and in the midst of a baby boom…”).
Yes, President Bush is pro-life (which is why I voted for him twice), but liberals think abortion is way cool. Lefties shudder when a convicted killer is executed, but murdering unborn children is what makes a liberal proud to be a liberal.
Tim Grant
Bernardston
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Republicans Jettison Noninterventionism
For some reason, it appears that many Republicans have a strange desire to lose in the next election. Republicans were defeated in large numbers in 2006 due, as many people believe, to their foreign policy. What happened to the Republican Party being the party of non-intervention? Traditionally the Republican Party has advocated a strong national defense but opposed foreign military intervention. They’ve often strayed from this position once elected and engaged in military operations, but they’ve had many campaign victories using the non-intervention rhetoric. Republicans opposed intervening in WWI and Nixon ran on getting us out of Vietnam. Even in the ‘90s, the Republicans were against U.S. intervention in Somalia and the Balkans. It is hard to believe that less than eight years ago, George W. Bush ran with a platform including a humble foreign policy and no nation building.
Today, none of the Republican candidates for president are even trying to talk about a humble foreign policy except one. The lone dissenter not only talks the talk but walks the walk. Ron Paul, a congressman from Texas in his 10th term, has opposed the war in Iraq from the start. He is the strongest anti-war candidate of either of the two major parties.
Although the other Republican candidates cannot compare to Ron Paul’s consistent record, some of them do try to talk about small-government issues such as lowering taxes. None of them, however, even tries to talk about limiting our foreign military intervention. If one of them other than Ron Paul gains the Republican nomination, it seems likely that they will lose the general election, due in part to their foreign policy.
Peace and nonintervention have helped Republicans win many elections and they neglect it at their peril. It is not only popular but it is moral and constitutional. We’d all do well to remember the words of Thomas Jefferson that Ron Paul often quotes: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”
Matthew Robinson
Westfield
