Reply #11: Self honesty is such an overrated virtue after all

[Batgirl]

It was sickeningly obvious during the run-up and the first few weeks of the invasion that those reporters were overjoyed at the prospect of war. Giddier than a troop of cubscouts embarking on the Big camping trip. In which, even if they didn't actually get to shoot a real gun, they would be in close proximity to those who could and would. Geraldo for fuck's sake used the war as a backdrop for a fantasy portrayal of himself as magnificent desert warrior. And he wasn't all that much worse than the rest, just funnier. And I can totally understand why they would not want to look back. I don't want to look at pictures of myself in the 80s with shoulder pads and a Golden Girls perm either. That's why I burned those photos. I'm sure we would all feel the same way if we committed some minor indiscretion that helped cause thousands of human lives to be destroyed and billions of dollars to be wasted.