Armchair Warriors: Why Are Conservatives the Biggest Warmongers?
Submitted on May 8, 2012
By Corey Robin - April 23, 2012
By now it seems self-evident that the neo-cons were drawn into Iraq for the sake of a grand idea...an idea of themselves as a brave and undaunted army of transgression. The gaze of the neo-cons...does not look outward nearly as much as it looks inward: at their restless need to prove themselves, to demonstrate that neither their imagination nor their actions will be constrained by anyone or anything — not even by the rules and norms they believe are their country’s gift to the world.
