[911_Inside_Job]

Spoken like a true Armchair General.

[jotm]

What? He's right - with $700 billion you could carpet bomb the place three times over...

[tjmc]

Actually Genghis Khan used those exact tactics to conquer Afghanistan in the 13th century.

[911_Inside_Job]

Spoken like a true XBox Hero.

Seriously. Westerners play XBox and that's their portal to militarism.

Oh. And they can pass quotes from their secondary education on militarism as knowledge of it.

In actuality, we're all just house pets who've never been in the jungle. Our owners are the ones who know about war and slaughter.

And the Armchair General types, don't get me started. They look at the world like a Risk Board that doesn't have enough of their colored pieces on it until we've got everything. And talk about how others are too squeamish or domesticated to do things properly. But they are far removed from war, and post on HN.

[Dewie]

People have to be Armchair X to a certain degree, in countries that you are alluding to - it's a prerequisite to a democracy.