A friend of mine made the following complaint: "Everytime a republican president takes military action against one of our enemies, the liberals all cry foul, but when Obama does it, you don't hear any complaining."
To which I replied: "would you be happier if all the liberals complained about Obama?"
His reply: "I just expect people to be consistent."
He does? Is that what he "expects?" Does he actually think people WILL be consistent, or does he simply hope they are?
I can assure my friend that whereas he is prefectly free to "expect" whatever he wants, he aint gonna get what he expects. People are not consistent, and will not so become an account of anyone's "expectations."
I for one have no interest or desire to be consistent. May I always have integrity, but not consistency.
Didn't someone once say "consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds?" (maybe i dreamt that)
Is it possibe that a liberal might think a republican war is unjust, but that a democrat war is just, not because of bias, but because of the circumstances of the respective wars?
Anyone who judges a war based on the political party of the warrior is not really being inconsistent, so much as unreasonable.
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