Ron Paul asks the two proconsuls of the province of Iraq, Petraeus and Crocker, the questions all decent people want answered. Catch Petraeus’s fury in response. In our militaristic system, the hard-faced, violence-purveying generals must never, ever hear a discouraging word, let alone a question they don’t like.

(Thanks to Jeremy Vielmas.)

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.