Thank you, I just love that way of framing the neo-con mindset. It helps explain their interpretation of “compassionate conservatism” as: “the intent to kill, abuse or at the very least marginalize and humiliate as many of you retched schmucks as we can at tax-payer expense, while obsessively increasing our power and wealth in the process.”

Meanwhile, if Mr. Kristol is really so worried about the dwindling supply of fodder for his war machine, rather than the recent grads from Wesleyan he should perhaps look to the ample supply of well-fed keyboard commandos who not only are eligible, but who — judging by their rhetoric and online posturing — are itching to get out there and kill some arabs serve their country honorably. Why, I bet he could find an entire battalion aimlessly swapping “I almost got laid this weekend” stories in the lunch room of the Weekly Standard.

In Kristol’s world, these people are latent terrorists.

The military can do good, but people like Kristol confuse serving political purposes with doing real good in the world.