Thursday, April 21, 2005

The Comfortable Thrill of Militarism - The Fascination with War

I have been thinking lately about how comfortable Americans are becoming with what I would call the new militarism which has emerged over the past ten to fifteen years as a kind of Star Wars fascination with all the gadgets and gizmos, thrills and chills of Made in America warfare.

A very, very good read on the changing face of war (ain't foxholes and beans any more, baby!) piece from Altenet this morning by Andrew Bacevich -- a genuine Conservative which is something quite different from a neocon -- provides an excellent explication of this new, somewhat strange and, what I find to be deadly tragic, purely American phenomenon.

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