Rick
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So, you support the Iran Contra affair?
I hesitant to respond to that, because grasping the answer requires a mind capable of discerning nuance, and I don't think you have one, but here we go.
First, I think a lot is lost when you throw away the rule of law. HOWEVER, there are times when not only the moral choice, but the RATIONAL choice is so heavily weighted on the side of breaking the law, that some upstanding people feel compelled to break it. Those persons should also indicate their general support of upholding the law by taking their consequent punishment without complaint, after carefully explaining publically why in this case they felt compelled to disobey the law.
One of the most leftwing congresses in US history was determined to support the nicaraguan dictatorship established by military takeover. That dictatorship quickly began exporting marxist revolution on their model to other south american countries. Note that those congressmen were the same sorts of people who had whimpered endlessly about the US realpolitik decisions to support this or that right-wing dictatorship as part of strategic moves during the world-wide 45 year titanic cold war struggle against the soviet union.
In return for a strategically inconsequential arms shipment to iran, Poindexter and North manage to do just enough to stop and overthrow the Sandinista machine. They broke the law, but made the correct (morally, rationally) decision.
Finally, the liberal/left has absolutely no standing to preach about upholding the rule of law - they overturn it frequently and with indifference, and at the most fundamental constitutional level, when it suits their political goals.