[Rummyfan]

I would never have imagined that journalists, academics, actors, artists, and the intelligentsia in general would have so opposed the end of dictatorship and promotion of democracy abroad.

They - journos, the intelligentsia, academics - are children, whining little children, and it is all about POWER to them, consequences to the nation be damned!

[NutCrackerBoy]

They - journos, the intelligentsia, academics - are children, whining little children, and it is all about POWER to them.

I agree the POWER aspect is telling. Sort of like it always works to follow the money. But there is something else going on, though it still reflects the inability of children to make hard choices. War is a known, visible evil. People we hear about died or lost limbs fighting this Iraq War. We chose war when we could have done something different. It was feasible through denial to turn a blind eye to the evils of Saddam Hussein.

[rj45mis]

"They - journos, the intelligentsia, academics - are children, whining little children, and it is all about POWER to them, consequences to the nation be damned!"

You said it very well. These self-absorbed, anti-American pompous asses will, if allowed, sell our freedom to the intolerant religion of Islam. It's time that good people stop caving in to these morons and start taking back their country and the decent values on which it was formed.

[Mr.Atos]

I would never have imagined that journalists, academics, actors, artists, and the intelligentsia in general would have so opposed the end of dictatorship and promotion of democracy abroad.

Rand not only predicted this some 60 years ago, she outlined exactly how it happens. She saw it first hand in Russia. Her writings read like a revelation and a warning. Is it any wonder why they have been all but officially banished from the American education system.

[cricket]

"I would never have imagined that journalists, academics, actors, artists, and the intelligentsia in general would have so opposed the end of dictatorship and promotion of democracy abroad."

The We Are the World people, are hypocrits of the worst kind.