War Without End

"It's interesting how those who believe in force as an article of faith eventually go the whole way, believing that the lessening of force is never the answer, and that all the problems in the world call for one and only one answer: ever more scary threats of violence. Force, for this crowd, is the great organizing principle of society, the answer to all existing problems now, in the past, and in the future. It becomes for them the overriding social and political salve, and there are no considerations that can possibly refute this contention." Lew Rockwell asks, why the heck didn't we "stay the course" for alcohol prohibition, the Vietnam war, wage and price controls, and all kinds of other righteous meddling?