I have pontificated previously on how the left has abandoned its traditional values of supporting the spread of democracy (much as the right has left behind its more isolationist leanings). Stephen Green of Vodka Pundit offers another example of the left’s descent into madness on the issue of arms sales to China:

”This is not the right time to lift the embargo,” Friedbert Pflueger, foreign affairs spokesman for the Christian Democrats, said in an interview.

”It sends the wrong signal to China. It is also damaging for Europe’s relations with the United States. We are going to bring this issue to the parliament and vote on the matter.”

The European Union imposed the arms embargo after the Tiananmen Square massacres in 1989. Pushed by France and Germany, which have substantial economic interests in China and whose leaders are eager to increase sluggish growth rates, the EU is preparing to lift the embargo, saying the human rights situation in China has improved.

As Mr. Green succinctly notes:

Remember when the lefties told us selling arms to dictators was a bad idea? Remember when righties were accused of being little more than shameless money grubbers with no interest in human rights?

Remember that? Wasn’t that cool?

Yeah, I remember. I’m still a liberal, it’s just that in this bizarro universe they call me a neo-con.

Whatever.