Reply #4: The only socially acceptable attitude toward war is . . .

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Hell, yes!

If you're against war as a tool of foreign policy, if you're against war as a political ploy to pump life into sagging poll results, if you're against war as a colossal waste of time, lives, and money, if you're against war for any number of perfectly good and valid reasons, you're a kook in American society. You're a traitor or worse. You're a la-de-dah fantasist. You're an ivory-tower egghead who doesn't see how the world really works.

But put on the war goggles, and war becomes the answer for everything, it works every time (except those unfortunate, isolated incidents when it sort of doesn't, but that's only because we didn't wage war hard enough), it never costs anything, none of the truly good guys ever dies, and everything comes out just ducky in the end, and the end comes right quickly.