After all these years I still don't get it.

[kpete]

What's It All About Then

Leaving aside the specific question of Syria, just what does motivate the "only way to help people is by bombing them" crowd. They aren't all on the payroll of military-industrial complex. So many of them are the types who would object to the government giving a hungry person a piece of bread, but who nonetheless are happy to spend hundreds of billions to "help" people all across the world.

by Atrios:
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2013/08/whats-it-all-about-then.html#disqus_thread