“We need a war!” famously exclaimed Lynne Cheney1 back in the reign of Bill Clinton. President Obama’s motto seems to be “We need another war!” Mainstream Democrats remain terrified of pissing off the Pentagon and the CIA, who will have their toys, and their budgets. This will be a cheap war, of course, but since we are “at war,” it will help stifle any hippie shit about, you know, actually cutting our grotesquely swollen defense budget. And, as any general will tell you, that’s the main thing.
Afterwords
Nick Gillespie explains here why the new existential threat of ISIS is neither new nor existential. Daniel Larison provides running commentary on the endless lies of the interventionist mainstream. Politico national editor Michael Hirsch charmingly blows his stack at the fact that people in DC still think Dick Cheney knows what the fuck he’s talking about.
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I’ve never seen video of Lynne saying this, so if she wants to deny it, I won’t object. But I’ve never seen video of her denying it either. ↩︎
