Precisely!
Let us help you with that dying thing, old chap.

Does this qualify as "informed consent"?

Who was that Marine who talked about the perfect war: They want to die and we want to kill them.

Pepys:

www.policyreview.org/apr04/west.html

Though I've seen it specifically attribute:

This is the Perfect War. They want to die, and we want to kill them.
-Sgt. Major Henry Bergeron, 1st Marine Division

www.travelbrochuregraphics.com/extra/truthvictorious.htm

And I don't think they appreciate how good we really are at killing.

We really are very good at it. The Germans and the Japanese thought they were hot stuff, but they were amateurs compared to the Americans.

Having a military class or a warrior culture is no substitute for a rational, business-like approach to war, combined with a gun-cars-sports macho culture.

Our secret has been that we do not particularly like war and wish to deter it if possible and get it over quickly if necessary, and get back to business.

By fortunate happenstance, the foregoing cultural traits dovetail nicely with the principles of war: mass, objective, offensive, simplicity, economy of force, maneuver, unity of command, surprise and security. Our culture, while not overtly warlike, as the unreformed German and Japanese, or Islam, or almost any other one might think of, is almost perfectly in tune with the spirit of modern war.

We're also personally offended by folks who start wars with us--it's a function of democracy. It yields self-righteous fury.

It speaks well of Bush that he is trying to avoid that. The self-righteous fury thing served us poorly in the Great War, and made retreat from Vietnam more harmful then it could have been. Not every war needs to be a crusade.

Just ensure we have airspace domination, overwhelming force, adequate logistics, leading edge technology and the will of the nation's majority.

These nutjobs don't realize that they can't keep tweaking the dragon's tail forever.

People who bad-mouth self-righteous fury just don't get. Fury is part of war. It is central to the principle of mass, the application of overwhelming, brutal combat power on the point of decision.

War without fury is a prescription for tentative, incremental frittering away of the country's will to fight. Sound familiar?

That's how wars are lost. Does that sound familiar?

Mr. Gots, thank you for your thoughts. I am not bad mouthing righteous fury(I do think self-righteous fury is to be avoided). There is a time and a place for it. We have a very professional military, and for the most part, the country just needs to stand out of the way. Righteous fury is part of Total War, not the tiny surgical strikes we are doing now. Self-righteous fury lead to the mess at the end of WWI and WWII. If Bush had played by those rules, we would have Invaded(half million+ troops) Afganistan, garrisoned it, and stopped. I don't think this would have been the safer route.