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Entry: Militarism and Conservatism: Can this Marriage be Saved? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/militarism_and_conservatism_can_this_marriage_be_saved#18127 Post contents: It's good that you recognize that there's a cult of the sacred, holy soldier martyr that most American conservatives are in deep communion with. Your solution is unfortunately totally ridiculous, and I think that you must be very late to this debate to make it. To these same people, America is also an exception beyond critique. Comparing us in any way to a bunch of nazis, commies, and Frenchmen is an insult in and of itself. But the Germans in WW1 weren't technically nazis, you say? Who cares! An American conservative would just say that they were only (to a degree) suppressing latent tendencies in the German character which would find their full expression under Hitler (though they might not express it in so many words, I honestly believe that this is their underlying assumption.) The same with pre-communist Russians, and don't you even get them started on the Frenchies! Who do you think is going to want to listen to your history lesson on a bunch of dead, euro-fag aristocrats, anyway? The idea that this above mentality and conservatism are somehow inextricably bound is a really depressing thought. I very much hope that it isn't true. Sent at: 2008 09 07