Alcaray thinking a conservative is interesting- surely this indicative of the End of Days.

As I've said before Bush's foreign policy is liberal, the fact that conservatives don't like it isn't surprising. Nor is the hatred from the Left for the liberal policies of a Republican president surprising.
I'm also certain that the Left and most conservatives aren't going to be very supportive idea of the govt playing major role in opening up the space frontier.

"Wouldn't. Couldn't. Shouldn't. These were the refrains of the cognoscenti in response to President Bush's inaugural address. Many conceded that the speech had moments of eloquence. But as a framework for U.S. policy, they found it had no hope of success and could lead to a passel of troubles. They took comfort only in the thought that the president did not really mean what he said. Peggy Noonan, writing on this page, reminded the president that "this is not heaven, it's earth." In a similar vein, Mark Helprin called the president's advocacy of "evangelical democracy" a "manic idea." "Will we refuse to buy Saudi oil?" asked William Buckley, mockingly. Not to worry, soothed the New York Times's David Sanger, the whole thing was "hopelessly vague and without a time frame." "

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"Some skeptics warn that democracy may not prove to be a cure-all for terrorism. Perhaps, but the record so far shows that democracies rarely produce wars or terrorism, and at a minimum we can predict confidently that we will have less of both as democracy spreads.

Others warn that to recklessly overthrow benign dictators will pave the way for less benign radicals. But there is no need to simply topple regimes: Our goal will surely be incremental change. And our key method should be to strengthen indigenous democrats through moral, political and material support, so they can be the agents of peaceful political transitions.

Still others make the reverse argument, saying that if we don't move single-mindedly for regime change then we are not sincere. But, democratization cannot be the only item on our diplomatic agenda. There will be other pressing issues like security and economics. The test of President Bush's sincerity is not whether he pursues freedom to the exclusion of everything else, but whether he insists on including it consistently among our priorities."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110006205

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