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This is an eclectic smorgasbord of issues, to be sure. What connects them is a growing consensus in favor of personal autonomy in moral decisions, and a rejection of using government to enforce “traditional moral values.” In fact, if I were so reckless as to use the “L-word,” I might just call this a nation-wide, long-term shift in a socially liberal direction...
...learned from the prewar standoff over Iraq at the UN Security Council that the Bush administration will not be restrained from starting a war by the absence of an international mandate. Instead, they stand back and wait for the U.S. to face the consequences of what they regard as reckless choices...
It’s hard to make anything good of this result. We are facing another four years of reckless spending, pointless wars and fewer civil rights. The (evangelical) church and state are more than just a little closer. When the Iraq war came around, I felt a similar way and decided that the only way to respond was to try to makes some money from the actions of this administration. In hindsight, buying all those energy stocks was about the most I could make of the mess...
...then there’s Lynah Rink, the Big Red’s home ice, where the fans toss around fish and insults with reckless abandon...
...Wilsonian. He does not believe we have a moral mission to remake the world in our image." Whereas Bush talks about the "transformational power of liberty," Kerry is a gradualist. He pledged last week to take measures to support "modernizers" within nondemocratic countries rather than wage "reckless campaigns to impose democracy by force from the outside...