As I have watched modern conservatism degenerate into an ideology condoning, even glorifying, torture, aggressive war, political absolutism, and worse, I have wondered about the basic mental health, even sanity, of people like Bill Kristol, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Clarence Thomas and many others. FireDogLake has just provided a thought provoking blog on one of leading”conservatives” favorite TV shows: “24.”
Turns out that recently top US military people visited the set and asked them to tone it down considerably, suggesting that the hero of the series is a psychopath and a criminal they would never want to be their employee, and that glorification of his tactics was hurting us abroad. Further, it was undermining military discipline.