Legal Commentary

Reasonable Disagreements On Afghanistan Policy

By Big Tent Democrat

While I personally support President Obama's Afghanistan policy, I accept that reasonable minds can disagree on this complex and difficult issue. I thus endorse Meteor Blades' view that we must avoid:

a kind of rebranding . . . to separate "reasonable progressives" from "the crazies."

This was the type of New McCarthyism that Andrew Sullivan popularized earlier this decade. We must reject such an offensive and harmful approach out of hand.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).