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Entry: A Gratifying Response Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/a_gratifying_response#88 Post contents: It seems even "conservatives" are condemned to fight the last war, but in a current venue. You bring up 1914, but at the end of the war the Treaty of Versailles was "the peace to end all peace", and through incompetence or malice, we are imposing that on Iraq, and trying to do so on Iran before the battle has even begun. Alcoholics eventually end up in the gutter, where they will have difficulty continuing. The national addiction to war might end when we go to the nadir of the gutter defined by the slopes of the Dow Jones Industrials and the price of US Treasuries. It is hard to sustain a habit that is either expensive or destructive, and it is impossible when the habit is both. Sent at: 2008 07 23