AgMedallion said:The current Democratic Party is NOT the party of FDR, Truman, JFK or even Scoop Jackson, Zell Miller or Sam Nunn when it comes to Foreign Affairs and military action.[post="185812"][/post]
Having learned, from Lyndon Johnson's mistakes in Vietnam, that the military solution is not always the only solution does not alter the fact that the Democratic party is the same party it was when Roosevelt or, for that matter Woodrow Wilson, was in office. Indeed, both clearly demonstrated the same refusal to rush to war and the same resolve to make sure they picked the right enemy.
Since when is Zell a Democrat again? Even when he was, he wasn't.
Then they want unanimous approval from the U.N. before they take even the most timid of actions.
Yet when Clinton, with the UN behind him, went into Kosovo, there was nothing from the Republicans but carping and criticism about how he was trying to distract attention from their crusade against him. Never mind that we were trying to stop a genocide. Where was the 'lets get behind the President' spirit then?
You're comparing apples and oranges by pointing to events years ago when the world situation was different.
Yet you bring up Carter, something even older? Your double standard is showing. The terrorist organizations that Reagan traded with were Hezbullah, financed by Iran, and Abu Nidal, financed by Syria, both still active and both still targeting Americans. That's apples to apples right there.
As for Reagan, his administration helped train and sold arms to the very same terrorists that are attacking us now. More apples anyone?