Friday, January 10, 2014

A little jingoism now and again can be- well, pretty stupid


John Holbo provides an update on the comedy stylings of one of Sarah Palin's original boosters:


Some Desperate Glory

by JOHN HOLBO on JANUARY 5, 2014
Amazing. Bill Kristol is hoping that, after a full century of unwillingness to go to war, because Wilfred Owen, this might be the year we consider – maybe! – going to some war. For the glory of it! Wouldn’t a war be glorious? If we could only have one? “Play up, play up, and play the game!” For the game is glorious!
Why have we been so unthinkingly unwilling to consider going to war for an entire century? Doesn’t that seem like a long time to go without a war?
Couldn’t we have just one?

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