A friend of mine is a combat veteran of the "fight for freedom" in the Middle East. He conveyed to me an interesting discussion he had with a mutual acquaintance who is very gung-ho about combat in Venezuela and maybe once again in the Middle East. The acquaintance works in the medical field and so has a critical skill that means he can sign up to "fight for freedom" even though he is in his 50s.

My combat vet friend asked him why he hasn't done just that, in view of the stiffy he has for what Trump is doing.

Cue the backpedaling.

Is it not always such with these people? Trump being the leader of such people, along with the likes of pudgy old chickenhawks such as Lindsey Graham and that anorexic, botox'd iteration of the Bitch of Buchenwald who says the woman shot in the face by an ICE thug in Minneapolis yesterday for the crime of Attempting to Drive Away was a "domestic terrorist."

Eager, they are, to see others die – from a distance. The killing – and the dying – done by others.