Yeah, yeah, I've heard it before. But guess what. We're not invading the Phillipines right now, and Twain was long dead before the idea of a World War appeared. In Twain's day, we could have shut the borders down, stayed home, totally ignored the rest of the world, and few people would ever have known the difference. The last major war was between Americans, and mostly fought according to specific rules of warfare.
In Twain's day, nineteen people with box cutters couldn't kill 3,000 people and lay waste to a chunk of Manhattan. In Twain's day, a guy with a box of powder couldn't kill a city.
There are few people who admire Sam Clemens more than I do, but it was goddam easy to be a militant pacifist in his day.
And I wasn't writing a fan letter to warfare. I am just getting a bit sick of listening to media people who want the war in Iraq to fail just so they can pick up political points.
"Supporting the troops" means you want them to win.
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