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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBuck Up, America! We Must Have More War!
By Kevin Drum
I read this piece yesterday by Eliot Cohen and felt tempted to nominate him for Asshole of the Year. He's upset that Americans claim to be "war-weary":
The families of the fallen are entitled to war-weariness. So are those wounded in body or spirit, and their loved ones. The mother who has sent her son to war has a right to war-weariness, as does the father who prepares to send his daughter to battle again and again. But for the great mass of the American public, for their leaders and the elites who shape public opinion, war-weariness is unearned cant, unworthy of a serious nation and dangerous in a violent world.
The average American has not served in the armed forces, as a diplomat or intelligence agent in a war zone. Neither have his or her children. No one has raised our taxes to pay for war. Americans can change the channel if they find the images too disturbing....
The average American has not served in the armed forces, as a diplomat or intelligence agent in a war zone. Neither have his or her children. No one has raised our taxes to pay for war. Americans can change the channel if they find the images too disturbing....
Tired of war? Just change the channel, crybaby, and let the rest of us get on with the business of running the world.
With the benefit of a night's sleep, I still think Cohen should get a nomination. This was really one of the most offensive columns I've read in a long time. Cohen is simply apoplectic at the thought of anyone in America thinking they have a right to be tired of war merely because we've been at war for 12 continuous years for virtually zero observable gain. "President Obama knew he was going to be a war president," Cohen lectures us. "If that duty was too trying for him, he should not have run for reelection, because, as he has discovered, he might have to fight new wars and not merely end old ones."
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Buck Up, America! We Must Have More War! (Original Post)
n2doc
Sep 2013
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gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)1. Fuck that bullshit, half the problems we have in this nation is because
we spend our money on fucking war!
BadGimp
(4,015 posts)2. wow that is really offensive...
heart splittingly so...
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)3. Just incredible! nt
BumRushDaShow
(128,952 posts)4. I am glad the Neocons finally heard the loud blast of "No more war!"
including from their own ranks (who yelled it out of spite as they threw themselves under the bus).
KG
(28,751 posts)5. we'll always have Iran....