"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
A Speech for Endless War
"Obama closed the speech with a tribute to 'an unbroken line of heroes' stretching 'from Khe Sanh to Kandahar -- Americans who have fought to see that the lives of our children are better than our own.' His reference to the famous U.S. military outpost in South Vietnam was a chilling expression of affinity for another march of folly."
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