Wars and Rumors of War 0
Doug J at Balloon Juice muses about war fever, Potomac style:
DC elites like war because they know they know they won’t have to go themselves, because wars are an opportunity to show off how much they know about Kurdish or whatever, and because they see themselves as citizens of the world who should care passionately about the “freedom” of this or that people (that last bit sounds more condescending than I mean it to be, I think).
I think he has a point (though he left out the part about rank-and-file Democrats who also fell for Bush’s lies).
He also left out the part about how beating the drums of war makes old men feel like macho men.
Wars of choice are popular with those who won’t have to fight.
