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Originally Posted by Zoe
No, you are assuming that it is a partisan question. Absolutely, Democratic politicians only lately (since Carter) have become less interventionist than Repubs.
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That is not the entire truth.
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However, since I have been posting here, Bush has been Pres. so I can only judge on the basis of the last few years. I am assuming that most of the people who now support the Iraq misadventure would also have supported the Vietnam misadventure under Johnson.
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You can assume that because you are 80 years old? 
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The flip side to the question which I ask MYSELF! is this: Why I still believe that government is capable of doing some domestic things efficiently and honestly when I totally disparage its right and ability to nation build, elsewhere.
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Ask why LBJ's programs have failed so miserably. It is not because inner-city people or rural rednecks are stupid. To the contrary.
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And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
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