Reply #41: no, I suppose we don't. [View All]

[ulysses]

Given the poor state of the media, we're not likely to. Still, we are citizens of a nation nominally committed to the idea that the people who most directly represent us control the power to declare war. If we, through them, abdicate that power on the basis of the fact that we don't know everything, then we share equally in the blame for what happens.

Give a Republican an excuse to go to war in an election year and he'll take it. Every time, in a heartbeat.