1. Getting Democrats into office.

Moyers is anti-war. Not anti-war like some mudcatters who, like me, begrudginly have to admit that, as a last resort of defense, find war a necessary evil. Moyers is anti-war. Period. Because of that, he finds more use in the election of Democrats.


This seems to imply that the pursuit of war is a preference in non-Democrats.

War is not a necessary evil, it is simply an evil. I grant you readily that we have had times in our history when it really seemed no alternative was left. But I believe this was always attributable to entrenched self-interest and a failure in imagination.

Some people are more interested than others in avoiding the evil of violence and slaughter. No-one who knows the agony of war will seek another one.

I don't know if that makes them Republicans and Democrats or not, though.

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