In Reagan’s Footsteps

Posted February 25, 2005, 12:31 p.m.

A really good editorial in the Wall St. Journal this morning about a trend I’ve been noticing—anti-war folks coming (slowly) to the grudging conclusion that Bush may just be right about this whole war in Iraq.

The WSJ is talking about the Europeans, but I am starting to see the same trend here (there’s a good example from a few weeks ago by Mark Brown: What if Bush has been right about Iraq all along? [Chicago Sun-Times]).

Chances are that you know a reformed anti-war person yourself, though they may not be admitting it yet ;-).

In Reagan’s Footsteps (Wall St. Journal OpinionJournal.com).

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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Totalitarian regimes tend to emphasize state education, because they know that indoctrinating the children protects their positions of power.

Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.

People who live their lives selfishly and at the detriment of others are often the ones who complain loudest about how badly they think they’ve been mistreated.

I can’t help but laugh when I am condemned for believing in Heaven, Hell, and an invisible God by people who believe in invisible matter and hidden dimensions.

The essence of love is not a feeling but a choice, a willing.

The great danger in today’s world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience.

If Catholicism predisposes the faithful to obedience, it certainly does not prepare them for inequality; but the contrary may be said of Protestantism, which generally tends to make men independent, more than to render them equal.

If you can tell anyone about it, it’s not the worst thing you ever did.

Science doesn’t purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. . . . It’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Appearance too often takes the place of reality—the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash.

Therefore the wise know themselves but make no show, have self-respect but are not arrogant.

We have to call it ‘freedom.’ Who’d die for ‘a lesser tyranny?’

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

I have attended public worship in all countries and with all sects and believe them all much better than no religion, though I have not thought myself obliged to believe all I heard.

Persistence is useful, but there’s no point in being an idiot about it.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

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