Disinterested in Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, America never seems to lose its Fascination with War

Do any poll you choose and Diplomacy, that ‘stuff that happens overseas’ comes in dead last. Yet for a nation that gives lip-service to promoting peace and prosperity throughout the world, we certainly have a blood-lust. Maybe it’s all those cool fireball movies Hollywood keeps making or the popularity of war games to buy our entertainment-satiated kids. Who knows, it might even be a holdover from the John Wayne days of our youth and the image of a lone gunfighter taking on the odds. Lots of beautiful shots of black-powder six-guns roaring and agreeably little of the result. The gunned-down die gracefully. No bodies blown in half.

Blown in half is the real world, pieces of the friend you spent last night playing cards and bunking with scattered in hunks. Combat buddies charred beyond recognition. It’s not pretty and I won’t dwell on it. Trust me, you wouldn’t want to actually see the result of what’s going on in Egypt. Egyptians don’t either, but haven’t the luxury of an ocean on eit…