I have spent many lonely, ibuprofen-consuming nights trying to find an exit from the desert wilderness I call my search for a political identity. As an independent who votes strictly on national security and calls for a principle-based foreign policy that supports our oppressed allies overseas, liberalism is my ideological home. My favoring of policies that proactively support freedom and confront tyranny puts me squarely at odds with the non-interventionist roots of the right. Yet the left has largely been silent on the need to press for freedom abroad.
