For Warophobes, It's All About Them

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.--John Stuart Mill

Mill's quote in the context of the War on Terror raises an interesting question: Are the Iraq Warophobes more interested in protecting their own safety than anything else?

The answer hardly needs explaining, particularly in the case of Kennedy-Reid-Pelosi-Murtha-Durbin & Company. If the Republican President's political survival (and conversely their own) weren't tied so closely to the war, one wonders, could they manage to muster at least a show of support?

["But - but - if his own political fortunes weren't at stake," KRPMD&C would shout, "Bush would do the right thing and pull out!" Perhaps, but then again, he isn't a candidate in 2008. Topic for another post: Maybe the two-term limit rule should be revisited because it makes the second-term president unaccountable and, often, less effective. Americans deserve better.]

As for the rest of the mush-brained masses, Mill's point about self-preservation puts their protests in a sickening light. The Curse of the Me-Generation strikes again.