politics

precisely so. there's a certain strain of liberalism that values intent far above outcomes. i think back every so often to o. scott card's ender's game which started as his thought experiment: can a good person commit genocide? in which he responds with a resounding, yes! people, and by extension, nations, are good or bad, not actions. the malice with which nikki haley writes on the bombs is to be condemned, of course, but in the liberal mind the banality with which the bombs are paid for, built, packed, shipped, loaded, armed, aimed, and dropped is to be commended.