War Fever
Occupy a country half-way round the world? No problem! Evan Thomas’s new book, The War Lovers, looks at a key moment in military adventurism. Thomas tells Kurt how the war-mongering that drove the largely forgotten Spanish American War resonates with the war in Iraq.
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