But George W. Bush pushed the wrong cultural buttons; he spoke with a fake drawl; he embraced ersatz middle-American pseudo-Christianity; he mispronounced nuclear. We OPPOSE this WAR BASED ON LIES! But when Barack Obama wades in, they wring their hands. Oh, dear. Oh, my. Qaddafi is killing his own people. God, someone please…

…Put someone in charge who makes the appropriate cultural signals, and skepticism vanishes. Their is no anti-war movement in America, no “left”–merely an unseemly collection of neoliberal cultural chauvinists, just as eager to cheer on the carnage, so long as it wears the appropriate guise and does not embarrass them at the dinner table.