A brief discussion on the difference between the left and the right

Over at Salon, Glenn Greenwald has a brief blog post pointing out two new logos for two new-ish organizations and/or projects.

First he points out that the ACLU is working on a “national security” project called “Keep America Safe & Free.” Pretty patriotic — overly so, if you ask my opinion as a Canadian.

But that’s the left side of the political spectrum. Over in the other corner, Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol are working on their own, very similar project. I believe it has similar aims of “national security” though of course their objectives and methods probably differ in the details. Oh, those messy, messy details.

Still, they’re similar. They both want national security. And so it’s not too surprising that they chose a similar name. They call theirs “Keep America Safe.”

A laudable objective, certainly.

But isn’t there something missing in the Cheney/Kristol version?

(Of course, I’m aware that this is a flawed argument. All it would take is for me to start a national security project called “Keep America Safe & Free & Fun” and using that same logic, we could argue that the ACLU hates fun. But it’s still a telling display of priorities.)