The other day, someone wrote somthing about Billy Beck that could just as easily apply to me and others. I am constantly both amused and dismayed by those who regularly ridicule government, then take some supposed 'long view' of history to justify war, which is merely the ace card of government's stranglehold upon citizens. ... I have never really understood why he trusts government to go to war, over against those who distrust our government--as much as does he. I've never spent any real time explaining this. I've always just said, essentially, that it's necessary to "kill the bad guys." That's an imperative, and it happens that the state is the only current practical way of accomplishing such a task. There are all sorts of imperatives in my life, should I desire to live a human life, and many of those imperatives involve dealing with a government that I do not believe has any moral right to exist. Anyway, Billy went and broad-stroked the whole thing and I encourage you to read it all. Here are some choice excerpts: At root, there is a crucial difference between the bloody fools running this war and the mindless dipshits who stand against...