“It says a great deal about the state of conservative thought in America that any of this (pro-war) nonsense could actually be confused with genuine conservatism.

“It says a great deal about the state of conservative thought in America that any of this (pro-war) nonsense could actually be confused with genuine conservatism. To the contrary, this kind of messianic ideology, whereby there exists some moral obligation to spread democracy and to “free” the various unfree peoples of the world, is precisely what the great conservative Edmund Burke meant when he spoke of the “armed doctrines” of the French Revolution.”