Not so long ago Evan Thomas was on some NPR show and he stated that he thought US journalists were generally in favor of the Iraq war (duh) because, I think his reasoning was, they "like conflict" or something like that. Now if he'd claimed that US journalists were in favor of the war because they believed Iraq was a legitimate national security threat I would've thought they were stupid, but the whole country was pretty stupid. Instead, apparently, they were for the war because they get excited by the thought of lots of innocent children getting their limbs blown off. No of course they don't think of it that way, but that's what war is and if they aren't capable of understanding that...