Totally worth the time to read. Some of it hits very differently in a post 9/11 post Covid world than it probably did when written. 9/11 was a reminder of the war fever; Covid of how desperately we want to forget. Of course both pale in comparison to the horrors of WWII.
I think it is fair to say that the USA rediscovered war fever after the attacks on home soil. It resulted in the land invasion of two countries.
> There's a phrase people sometimes use about a nation's collective reaction to events like Pearl Harbor -- war fever. We don't know what a true war fever feels like today, since nothing in our recent history compares with it; even a popular war like the gulf war was preceded by months of solemn debate and a narrow vote in Congress approving military action.
I was unfamiliar with the author but when I read this bit I started hunting for a publication date - 1997.
