I voted for Ronald Reagan twice. He was the right guy at the time for me. Today’s Republicans who bear the standard of the conservatives however, do not behave like true conservatives. We only need look back at history to see true conservatism and the success it can bring.
Abraham Lincoln’s guidelines for prisoner treatment during the civil war were the framework for the Geneva Convention’s guidelines. United States army treatment of surrendering German army soldiers at the end of WWII was so humane that it led the quick surrender of millions of German soldiers who knew they would be safer with the allies then fighting a losing cause against them any longer.
This lecture by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells this tale much better than I can.
