Oliver Kamm in the UK says he is a British liberal who nevertheless finds himself supporting President Bush and having some difficulty disagreeing with Baroness Margaret Thatcher's recent book. If he lived here, he'd be a great "swing voter."
I stand on the Left and I'd certainly vote for Bush.... The single most pressing question for those who believe in democratic politics is the threat to liberal values - indeed to the lives of our own citizens and the very survival of western civilisation - from Islamofascist totalitarianism. President Bush, who campaigned in 2000 with an ominous aversion to what he called 'nation-building' amid hints that he would reduce US overseas commitments, has shown that he is squarely in the tradition of liberal internationalism exemplified by Harry Truman. Rather than treat terrorist attacks on American soil as an isolated criminal act, he has rightly regarded them instead as an act of war. He has prosecuted that war with due regard to America's allies (in fact, with far more than due regard in the case of some of them) but a determination to defend a civilisation that separates religious and civil authority, defends women's rights, upholds the rule of law and constitutionally enshrines the right to political dissent.Posted by Alan at June 24, 2003 09:41 PMvia Oliver Kamm