Oh gosh, let's not get down on the Germans and the French now....
No it isn't--unless you're a hungry horse. It's merely a series of straw men, each smaller and dryer than the last, lined up and presented as a critique of the antiwar movement.
The mob does not speak for me. Any more than does the War Party. They are flip sides of the same coin and I recongnise them both for what they are---the deadly enemy of all that is good, true and beautiful.
The desperate need to associate anti-interventionist conservatives with the mob indicates a deep insecurity on the part of pro-war conservatives. And you should be insecure.
You are a tiny minority and your antics invigorate your siamese twin--the folks like ANSWER, et al. But once they start wiggling around they will use up your life force.
The citation of the "stockholm sydrome" is accurate---but only to describe the mental state of interventionist conservatives. You are wholly mezmerized by the mob. Just as the Francophobes are wholly absorbed by the French and not by the problem of why the American Administration failed to win the day in the Security Council. Everything is directed towards the Other because you are afraid to examine the vast nothingness of your own position. Both of you are interventionists. Both of you are destroyers. Both of you are progress-mongers.
It appears that the only escape from both of you is what Santayana called "the mental reservation":
"..."Society suffocates liberty merely by existing, and it must exist, and all its members are equally its slaves. The individual may elude the feeling, though not the fact, of subjection to society either by a willing conformity or by a mental reservation....."