American Media Loves War And Hates To See It End

War is a farce that gives them meaning

Jean-Léon Gérôme — The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer

The American media loves war. Now that the war of Afghanistan is ending, you can hear them positively howling with disbelief. A reporter asked the Defence Department, with genuine hurt in his voice,

“Would you say there’s no interest in us having some presence, on the borders of Iran, on the…