This is also (hopefully) a little off

Looking at the ’Big Picture’ by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com: "As disastrous and destructive as such a war would be for ordinary citizens, such a course would benefit the ruling elite in this country in innumerable ways. The "unity" our political leaders and their court intellectuals find so sadly lacking in their subjects would return with the first bombing raids, as both parties join hands and march down the road to war. What an inspiring sight it will be, as the wartime "emergency" breaks Washington’s infamous "gridlock" and brings about a sudden Grand Compromise consisting of higher taxes and draconian cuts in "social services" – with no concomitant cuts in the military, naturally."


What this declension ignores is what we can call the Pinker reality, the reason why most Americans have no interest in the continuation of our ground war efforts. The economic constraints and an enlivened democratic public opinion should serve to modify if not stop entirely a march toward what we can also call with some certainty another McCain War. It may be the great contribution of two disastrous wars based on neo-con premises that they were sufficiently horrendous to forestall a third.