How should I take it? Are you implying that Americans hunger to spill the blood of their kin, but not of the outsider? The opposite?Perhaps that rebellion is not a war, but is somehow different?
American's taste for war is as a last resort. Whether that war is on our soil or on the soil a world away doesn't change much on that view. We haven't even approached the average person's internal cost:benefit calculation as defined by the Rebel's Dilemma - we are still in the phase of opposing the concept of war.
This is a "coke isn't water" comment.
How should I take it? Are you implying that Americans hunger to spill the blood of their kin, but not of the outsider? The opposite?Perhaps that rebellion is not a war, but is somehow different?
American's taste for war is as a last resort. Whether that war is on our soil or on the soil a world away doesn't change much on that view. We haven't even approached the average person's internal cost:benefit calculation as defined by the Rebel's Dilemma - we are still in the phase of opposing the concept of war.