The NY Times' Nicholas Kristof points out today that the most vociferous advocates of liberal humanitarianism are Christian conservatives:
Members of the Christian right...are the new internationalists, increasingly engaged in humanitarian causes abroad -- thus creating opportunities for common ground between left and right on issues we all care about... Liberals traditionally were the bleeding hearts, while conservatives regarded foreign aid, in the words of Jesse Helms, as "money down a rat hole." That's changing. "One cannot understand international relations today without comprehending the new faith-based movement," Allen Hertzke writes in "Freeing God's Children," a book about evangelicals leaping into human rights causes.
My how things have changed. So what is left for The Left to stand for? Nothing. Well, I shouldn't say that. They stand for anything that stands against America.
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