I'm not a liberal. Some here might call me a fundamentalist Muslim, perhaps even an extremist.

In any case, I saw No Country for Old Men. I didn't see it as liberal. It showed a starkness, a cruelty which would make a person who hates murder and the chaos of criminalism, more determined in his principle. Do you hate murder? Despising murder,chaos and criminalism which causes the loss of innocence, the loss of decency, the loss of goodness, should be a universally human, noble principle. Good people seek to suppress and reject murderous inclinations. It is not reserved for anyone faction of the American political spectrum.

When Bardem's character enters into the Texas gas station and flips a coin on the life of the old Texas white, gas station attendent, I experienced a truly human sympathy and desire to protect and defend that old man. It even revived my own empathy for his circumstances.

Now I have travelled the lonely highways of Texas, even hitchhiked on them. Desolation, loneliness, and the fear of predation by some diabolical character are threats which no hitchhiker can ignore. And Texas supplies all of the above. And in that instant of Bardem's character's explanation of his philosophy on life- that his murderous intent was simply the will of God, or the will of chance or a flip of a coin- I deeply felt for that gas station attendent. If you have ever hitchhiked on a lonely Texas highway, you might understand how the chance that that next driver is a murdering feind, or a good samaritan is indeed heads or tails. Having taken rides with both fiends and samaritans, I thank God that He protected me in those days.

And there are many instances in which a genuinely good person could enjoy and appreciate that movie. Brolin's character began by hunting antelope and he geniunely sympathized for the buck he winged but did not kill. Thus, he was determined to track it down for miles in order to kill it, rather than let it suffer a slow, painful death of infection and septsis. And when he felt bad for leaving that Mexican driver wounded in his car without water, he willingly and knowingly sacrificed his life to return to give aid, basic human aid, to that man even if he was a Mexican drug smuggler/dealer. Those aren't liberal sentiments by any stretch of human civilization. Those are noble human traits found in the best stories of most any culture.

And Jones' character, the sheriff, lamented the increased brutality and depravity of crime (and the loss of innocence) as he ate his breakfast. That wasn't liberal.

I have intentionally avoided the suggestion that the antithesis of any of my examples were conservative because I know that there are good, fair, upright, humble conservatives as there are the liberals.

So one could find in such a movie as No Country for Old Men principles which good people of all politics or religions can appreciate and embrace.