People who hope and pray for more violence are broken. They are damaged, twisted, chemically unsound, insane people. They should always be looked at and treated like that. They should never be taken seriously. They have forgotten something elemental about being human: how to live and hope and act for somebody other than ourselves. Most especially the young. They have lost the courage to do that.
Norman Podhoretz has forgotten everything good about being alive. He is in the perfect service of himself and nobody else, and that self is tired, withered, and cowering in a darkened corner. It isn'tt even himself he sees in the glorious and righteous war he hopes and prays for. It is, of course, someone else. A whole bunch of mostly young someone elses. That is what Norman Podhoretz, in a major publication today, hopes and prays for.
What a perfect coward.
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