Finally,  a loud and clear statement from liberals that Harry Truman would have approved — and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Hubert Humphrey, and yes, Robert Kennedy. The Euston Manifesto is a public statement by British liberals in support of the War on Terror. The New York Sun writes today, "We are democrats and progressives," it opened. "We propose here a fresh political alignment. Many of us belong to the Left, but the principles that we set out are not exclusive. We reach out, rather, beyond the socialist Left towards egalitarian liberals and others of unambiguous democratic commitment." The signers were particularly concerned with the alliances set up in the British anti—war movement with "illiberal theocrats" and defenders of suicide bombings. There has never been any doubt about the "unambiguous democratic commitment" of Anglosphere conservatives, which goes back to Edmund Burke, John Locke and the American Founders. The Euston Manifesto is an opening by liberals...(Read Full Post)