[sheltonmac]

>I am talking about un-intellectual Americans — decent, good-hearted, Christian family-loving folk, who just can't see why the affairs of Albania or Zimbabwe are any damn business of theirs, much less why they should send off their beloved children to be killed in such places.

This kind of insulting outlook is exactly why I have a growing intolerance for Neo-conservatives.

>Public opinion supported the Vietnam War almost to the end of it; it was the elites and the intellectuals who turned against it, not ordinary Americans.

So we should forget the Constitution and wage war based on public opinion??????

>Idealism, like terrorism, has — can have — no borders.....American idealism cannot be contained.

Idealism, like terrorism, has killed millions upon millions of people. (See The Idealism-Realism Schism.) To sacrifice constitutional principles for selfish, idealistic crusades is not only un-American, it's morally wrong.