What, asks Podhoretz, "if liberal democracies have now evolved to a
point where they can no longer wage war effectively because they have
achieved a level of humanitarian concern for others that dwarfs any
really cold-eyed pursuit of their own national interests?" His
references were to the recent outcry over civilian deaths in southern
Lebanon, and the continuing insurgency in Iraq, and how that reaction
compared to, say, the relative indifference over civilian deaths in
World War II. - War Eternal
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