> I find it fascinating and symptomatic that Judt wails loudly about
> violence, but can't be bothered to mention the inconvenient truth that the
> US spends $800 billion every year on the industrialized variant of hominid
> head-bashing. That's half the military spending of Planet Earth.
He does lament what he feels is the unprecedented violence of the 20th century, but that's hardly central to his observations about the American perception of war (which take up most of the essay).
-- Andy