Butler Shaffer of LewRockwell.com on Politics and Moral Values:
What are the “moral values” championed by Mr. Bush in his first term of office? His administration put together a mixture of blatant lies, deceptions, forged documents, and unfounded fears, to whip up a war frenzy against a nation that posed no threat to the United States. His unprovoked war – which had no more legal justification than did Hitler’s invasion of Poland – has resulted in over 100,000 deaths and devastated much of Iraq. Some of the administration’s business friends are profiting handsomely from this vicious undertaking, while at the same time many Iraqi prisoners have been systematically tortured at such places as Abu Grahib. As the costs and revelations of duplicity in this war continue to escalate, the Bush administration appears ready to play the same unprincipled game at the expense of Iran, or North Korea, or any other country selected as the enemy du jour. If these are examples of the “moral values” that were triumphant on election day, can someone explain their meaning to me? How do such actions express “moral values” that differ from those of Machiavelli, or Attila the Hun?
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