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July 23, 2006
Hawkish women
[ UPDATE: Ilya Somin sees this as a split within the libertarian movement. ]
Since 9-11, I have noticed a counter-intuitive trend: Of couples I know, the husband is usually more dovish or more assured of the efficacy of diplomacy, and the wife is usually more hawkish, less squeamish about war.
Go figure.
Anyway, this trend seems to be holding with economists Milton and Rose Friedman:
. . . . Mr. Friedman here shifted focus. "What's really killed the Republican Party isn't spending, it's Iraq. As it happens, I was opposed to going into Iraq from the beginning. I think it was a mistake, for the simple reason that I do not believe the United States of America ought to be involved in aggression." Mrs. Friedman--listening to her husband with an ear cocked--was now muttering darkly.Go, Rose!Milton: "Huh? What?" Rose: "This was not aggression!" Milton (exasperatedly): "It was aggression. Of course it was!" Rose: "You count it as aggression if it's against the people, not against the monster who's ruling them. We don't agree. This is the first thing to come along in our lives, of the deep things, that we don't agree on. We have disagreed on little things, obviously--such as, I don't want to go out to dinner, he wants to go out--but big issues, this is the first one!" Milton: "But, having said that, once we went in to Iraq, it seems to me very important that we make a success of it." Rose: "And we will!"
Judith | 07/23/06 at 12:27 AM | Categories: Liberal hawks and friends
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You may well have a good point here, but this man supports Israel and the war against the jihadists.
Oh I think it's perfectly reasonable.
Don't ever try to hurt the cubs of the mama-bear.
Tat | July 23, 2006 10:27 AM
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