How Democrats View America, Year After Year After Year

They're entitled to their opinion, but you need to understand it.

by Rod D. Martin
April 19, 2013

I sometimes marvel at questions to which I already know the answers, from history.

In the Cold War, America would send economic aid to an ally against Communism and the left would label it an aggressor; the Soviets would invade Hungary, Czechoslovakia, or Afghanistan, and the left would explain how Russia was really just reacting to the aforementioned economic aid.

Russia would deploy nuclear missiles all over Europe, and Democrats would ignore it. America would deploy deterrent missiles (fewer, and smaller), and Democrats would label Reagan a crazed warmonger out to destroy the world.

In the 1990s, Clinton told us Saddam had WMDs and bombed the crap out of Iraq, conveniently on the day of his grand jury testimony and on the day before his impeachment vote: liberals cheered his bravery and foreign policy acumen. In 2003, Bush told us Saddam had WMDs and the left universally called him a liar (funny thing, though: Bill Clinton didn't).

In the 1960s, when Ameri…