Your Email:

Subject:

Message:
Entry: Come Home, Conservatives! -- to the Antiwar Conservative Movement Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/come_home_conservatives_the_antiwar_conservative_movement#25391 Post contents: Thomas take aim with a good parting shot about the popularity of the warfare state with the American people. Perhaps here Adam Smith has something to tell us about the Fox News generation. In "Wealth of Nations" he says: "In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory from a longer continuance of the war." Sent at: 2008 07 06