Libya interventionists trust government, not people

Bel article dans The Examiner sur le débat aux États-Unis... Qui est pour une intervention en Libye et qui est contre.

J'adore cette tirade de John Kerry:

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry was one of the earliest lawmakers calling for the U.S. to impose a no-fly zone in Libya -- which is the same as going to war in Libya, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates has made clear. Kerry's hawkishness -- on display today just as it was in the buildup to our invasion of Iraq -- is of a piece with his faith in big government, which you see in his championing cap-and-trade energy rationing in the name of fighting climate change, and his earning an F from the National Taxpayers Union 16 of the last 17 years (he earned a D in 1996).

Underlying Kerry's faith in government is his evident distrust of the hoi polloi. Last year Kerry explained: "We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on, so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what's happening." Of the Tea Partiers, Kerry said: "We've lost our minds. We're in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in. It's all short-order, lowest-common-denominator, cheap-seat politics."

Kerry distrusts the people and thinks we all need government to tell us how to live. The same is true, unsurprisingly, of other Libya interventionists.


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