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Fighting Evil

Republicans, and especially President Bush, see their role in the world as good people fighting evildoers. Within the U.S., the evildoers are those indulging in sexual deviation - pre-marriage sex, homosexuality, pedophilia and other sexual variants. Outside America, the evildoers are dictators - not all of them, only those unfriendly to the U.S. The Republican approach for fighting evil is talk to American evildoers and silence with foreign evildoers. Neither approach seems to be working.

One of the biggest warriors against homosexuality is Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family. Here is a little tidbit about him:

According to Dobson’s 2004 book Marriage Under Fire, the homosexual agenda aims to “implement a master plan that has as its centerpiece the utter destruction of the family.” What’s in this “master plan”? Dobson says the evil scheme includes “overturning laws prohibiting pedophilia [and] indoctrination of children and future generations through public education,” among other things.

A real fighter of evil.

What does Dr. Dobson say about Foleygate, which deals with the "homosexual agenda"?

As it turns out, Mr. Foley has had illicit sex with no one that we know of, and the whole thing turned out to be what some people are now saying was a -- sort of a joke by the boy and some of the other pages.

What Dobson called one of the biggest sins he now calls a joke. He knows how to talk and he knows how to change his talk. Action? Oh, my gosh, he can't do that. Foley and all the other Congressmen involved are Republicans. Republicans do no wrong. They fight evil. Must stick to the storyline.

Foleygate is a petty story, insignificant when considered against the actions of Republicans abroad. First, Bush set the stage by pronouncing Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil."

He was not going to talk to these evil regimes. He was going to fight them, starting with Iraq, the weakest of the 3 evil states. No need to mention results; Iraq is a failed state.

As soon as he got into office, Bush attacked Bill Clinton for being too soft on North Korea. According to Bush, you don't talk, you don't negotiate, you don't use diplomacy with an evildoer like Kim Jong II. If there must be talk, let the Chinese do it. This is the same Bush that would not ask "permission" from anyone to attack Iraq. So the North Koreans have just tested a nuclear bomb. That evildoer is getting his way.

The third evildoer in the "axis of evil" is Ahmadinejad of Iran. He sees the handwriting on the wall and is doing what North Korea did: he's developing a nuclear bomb. Here again, Bush does not deign to talk to an evil guy like Ahmadinejad.

Bush does not believe in talk. He believes only in action. Action in this case means war. With Bush at the helm there will always be war against evil.

Democrats must always fight for talks, tete-a-tetes, dialogues, discussions, summits, conferences, diplomatic meetings. Maybe more reasonable Republicans, such as James Baker, who is chairing a commission about what to do about Iraq, will introduce more diplomacy into our foreign affairs.

With regard to both Americans and other nations, Republicans are wrong. The world is not divided into good and evil people and good and evil nations. Democrats believe that people and nations are mixtures of good and evil. Free speech at home and diplomacy abroad are the way to improve American society and to increase comity among nations of the world.

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