In parts of the world, lives and battles lost more than 1,000 years ago still get human blood boiling.

For revenge.

For this and other reasons, revenge-lust usually seems to me the very definition of rock-headedness.

I am inconsistent, however, but not without reason. Had I been alive in 1941, I would have supported our entrance into World War II in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. No doubt about it.

I supported the military response in Afghanistan that followed the terrorist attacks of 9/11, whereas I vehemently opposed and marched against the extension of that war to Iraq and the hash our leaders made of things. Yes, Saddam Hussein was a blood-thirsty despot, but he had not attacked the United States. Something else pushed the second Bush Administration to start that war.

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