As a rabbi, I turn to the Torah for guidance about which of these two wars we ought to join. The First Lady's approach to the crime issue puts on display important elements of her liberal ideology. If we compare a few aspects of that ideology with their Torah counterparts, the picture becomes very clear. Liberalism proclaims that you can eat your cake and have it, too.
Government can expand without reducing the freedom of the governed.
The military can be used as a laboratory for gender role experiments without compromising readiness. And, in New York, the chorus of the politically correct can demand ever more constraints on the police without sacrificing any of the crimefighting gains that have been made. The Torah teaches a different lesson. Since the expulsion from Eden, we earn our bread by the sweat of our brow. Human life consists not only of hard work, but of stern choices and trade-offs.