Iraq Jumps Shark, But High Hopes for Its Sequel, Iran

In "America's Reign of Terror in Iraq" on AntiWar.com, Justin Raimondo writes:

"Today, Americans look on the Iraq war as little more than a. . . series of flickering images darting across their television screens, disturbing but no more real than the latest horror movie. . . . we are inured, like our Roman antecedents, to the moral meaning of what we are seeing [as if it were] happening in another dimension, and certainly we bear no personal responsibility for the crimes being committed in our name."

"One of the great paradoxes of our age is how the US can be so dimly complacent and so sharply fearful in the same breath. We're in a constant state of sluggish agitation, worked up into a righteous state of indifference."

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