Unfit to Print: MORAL RELATIVISM

MORAL RELATIVISM 

If you’ve watched any of my commentary, particularly at Reason’s Free Media and The Hill’s Rising, over the past week, you know I am deeply skeptical of military intervention with Iran. President Donald Trump has said two things consistently: 1. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and, 2. No new wars.

That is a difficult needle to thread.

Diplomacy might get you there. Limited strikes might get you there. Regime change in Iran probably won’t.

Non-interventionists are right, I think, to have a bit of PTSD from our 20-year attempt at nation-building in the Middle East and are extremely concerned of what comes next if the Iranian regime is toppled.

So far, Iran’s strikes against the U.S. appear to be performative. The U.S. cleared most of its staff out of an abundance of caution prior to the bombing. Iran gave advanced notice about the attack, three Iranian officials told The New York Times, to minimize casualties. Qatar said no casualties have been reported, and it appears all of Iran’s missiles were intercepted by defense systems.

“The officials said Iran symbolically needed to strike back at the U.S. but at the same time carry out in a way that allowed all sides an exit ramp; they described it as a similar strategy to 2020 when Iran gave Iraq a heads up before firing ballistic missiles [at] an American base in Iraq following the assassination of its top general [Soleimani],” the Times reported.

Hopefully, this is a move toward de-escalation and a way to resume negotiations without getting fully embroiled in war.

One disturbing trend I have noticed from the anti-interventionist left, which is distinct from the anti-interventionist right, is the instinct to downplay Iran’s evil. As Democrat strategist Van Jones said on CNN, the “why” America hit Iran’s nuclear facilities should be clear — Iran is a uniquely bad regime that cannot be trusted with such deadly capabilities. The question, then, is how and when you deal with that reality.

Some members of the left, though, are confused about the why. They seem to think that Iran is no different than the U.S in terms of its subjugation of its people.

The View’s Whoopi Goldberg, for example, claimed the plight of black and gay people in America is comparable to that of women and gays in Iran.

“Well here’s the thing. Let’s not do that because if we start with that, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car. Listen, I’m sorry. [Americans] used to just keep hanging black people,” Goldberg said. “Murdering someone for their difference is not good whoever does it. It’s not good.”

Former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner made similar comments.

“I’m not happy that the Iranian government would treat women differently or disrespectfully. I’m also not happy about the disrespectful nature of how American women are treated here,” Turner said. “It was a time in this country’s history — and that’s why I mean that we don’t have moral high ground— but if we go to countries and say, ‘Let’s learn from our experience’ … I hear stories from older women who tell me there was a period of time in this country where women could not own credit cards.”

“My argument is this: we need to take care of inequity and inequality for women in the United States of America before we start going over there looking in somebody else’s backyard,” Turner said.

If you’ve gotten to the point where you are apologizing for Iran’s brutality and at all equivocating it with America, you’ve lost the plot.

Women in Iran have been killed for not properly wearing hijabs or for protesting the regime. The Iranian government can kill you for being in a same-sex relationship. Detained people routinely face sexual assault.

Has America done troubling things in its history? Sure. But it’s also 2025. We’re not Iran. We shouldn’t even be in the same breath with them when it comes to human rights.

The left’s moral relativism abroad leads to troubling things at home. If all cultures are equal, there’s no need for assimilation. In fact, assimilation is erasure, an act of violence. Objective values, like the ones that founded this country, need not apply.

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Amber Duke

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