Reply #13: I always hated that term

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Peace with honor just reeks of Nixonian vindictiveness, and in many ways, Junior is the same sort of petty and small-minded score-settler.

It's "honor" and ego that get nations into idiotic wars so often, and making sure our manliness isn't questioned sustains us in idiotic situations. The thought of how many people have to die and get hurt so we can stand tall as big swaggering cowboys is sickening.

There's a pretty good argument to be made that the major reason we went there in the first place is to puff up and strut to show the world that we'd smash anyone who bugged us and that we meant business. Junior is a classic example of a truly small person who revels in bossing people around and bending them to his will.

Enough of that, though. We're not leaving Iraq. We'll be there until we've sucked the last drop of oil out of the ground, and we'll use it as a base to muscle everyone else in the area and sustain Israel.

Don't underestimate the fundamentalist mindset: it will be seen as an even more noble endeavor as it goes to hell. Don't those people know how nobly we're spilling our blood and treasure out of the goodness of our hearts? The worse it gets, the more altruistic and godly we are.

These guys truly feel that they can bring the world to heel like a bad dog, and they'll twist and lie to any extent they need. They're so firmly convinced of their god-given superiority that they simply can't fail. That's how the Nazis lost.