This is a great article, but the title is utterly imbecilic. Why is it that so often, that intelligent rhetoric is masked behind idiotic headlines such as this? You draw a line that many people are unwilling to cross. There are a large number of people who will see this title and turn the page in absolute disgust without reading a sentence. Andrew Bacevich is a name I will watch for, we need more thoughtful people of this type in our government. Caleb Daniloff, I deplore your article's title, and I find it a strong example of the systemic failure of the media system in the US. It would have been something I shared with as many people as I possibly could have if not for the evident stupidity illustrated in the first four words in this column. The right concentrates on the psychology of fear and terror to influence mislead voters, and the left uses contempt as their weapon to relate to other voters who are disgusted with the way our government works. Both tactics do little for true progress.