The Richard Cohen Solution: MORE WAR!

This morning I opened my paper and saw that columnist Richard Cohen was calling on us to join the civil revolt in Syria. He condemned President Obama for keeping us out of a war.  Cohen was incensed at this slighting of the military-industrial complex, which requires endless and multiple wars. Obama very slowly ended our role in the moronic war in Iraq, and by the end of this year only about 32,000 troops will remain in Afghanistan. Cohen understands that we need new wars to fill the gap. Where, Cohen asks, is our "moral urgency"? Without it, how will we conquer the world? And after we conquer the human world, perhaps we can force a republic on the chimpanzees, and after them, crows in trees can be divided into states with two senators each, and then. . . .