Mona Charen Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.

  Mona Charen

  War, Might, Cold

• If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and little about the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

  Mona Charen

  War, Memorial, World

• Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'

  Mona Charen

  Religious, War, Elderly

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

• Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to find any suspect motive or impure act on the part of the United States rather than confront the staggering scale of destruction and misery being wrought by our adversaries.

  Mona Charen

  War, United States, Misery

  Mona Charen (2003). “Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First”, p.261, Regnery Publishing

• Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to discover sex, many of its members also seemed to think they were the first to discover the horrors of war.

  Mona Charen

  Baby, Sex, War

  Mona Charen (2003). “Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First”, p.156, Regnery Publishing

• Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several decades now. And when do-gooders look around at the wreckage of human lives caused by disintegrating families, they call for government to act as father, mother, brother, and sister.

  Mona Charen

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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