William Kristol knows what is wrong with the United States. As he
wrote recently in the flagship magazine of the neo-conservatives, the Weekly
Standard, the problem with the US is that we seem to have lost our
appetite for war. According to Kristol, the troubles that have befallen
us in the 20th century have all been the result of these periodic bouts
of war-weariness, a kind of virus that we catch from time to time.