You're dead wrong on this issue Tom because you're using as your justification the views on the war of individuals not their stated ideology.

If you want to argue that a larger percentage of liberals oppose this particular war than the conservatives do, of course that's true but it has nothing to do with the basic tenets of each philosophy.

A liberal philosophy tends to be an open-minded, all options on the table one, where even the views of diverse groups can come into the mix. In that case part of the brainstorming input could indeed be a militaristic solution to a problem as illustrated by the number of Democratic presidents that ruled over major foreign military adventures. They were able to come to the conclusion that the particular war they were involved with fit their ideological slant.

However, the Republican party I've signed up for in the past seemed to embrace the notion of being conservative in terms of foreign entanglements a notion they were very public about when Clinton was moving troops into Bosnia.

You're conveniently confusing individual choices about the military and its use with a political leaning that deals more with the size of government and interactions with its own citizenry.

Huffington is dead on right in this one Tom. You haven't a leg to stand on.

Art