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Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism by P.J. O'Rourke
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“The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.”
P.J. O'Rourke, Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism
“We're coming to the end of the long, dark modern age. Slaughters of unnumbered human beings continue, but not among people who knew Spencer Tracy. Warfare persists, but the scale of battle is returning to something that the author of the Illiad would recognize. Maybe someday each combat casualty will rate the kind of mourning that Achilles did for Patroclus, except on television, and the saga of every Jessica Lynch will be an Odyssey or, anyway, a cover of People. There never will be peace, but we can have wars here, when we talk about our soldiers, we say, "Dey is only heros.”
P.J. O'Rourke, Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism
“PJ's suggested chant, for pointless protest marches:

"Five, four, three, two.
We don't have a doggone clue!”
P.J. O'Rourke, Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism