RC/CA

Jul 8th, 2009 @ 7:03 pm

Chateaubriand hit the nail on the head when he wrote that: "Men don’t allow themselves to be killed for their interests, they allow themselves to be killed for their passions." That’s true of modern war, but what about postmodern? How long can you sustain non-existential wars when the population is apathetic at best, albeit that it remains well disposed to its small professional armed forces? The answer is, I think, that we don’t really know: we’ve only been here once before in Iraq, and that’s not a hopeful example.

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