There's no need to list the admirers: far too many and far too famous, or infamous, from Alexander through Genghis Khan to Napoleon and Hitler. So this is mostly about the detractors. Butler Shaffer, whose columns appear on LRC, wrote on March 16, in "What Is Terrorism?": "There are no u2018noble' or u2018just' wars when the lives of millions of innocent men, women, and children are consumed in the slaughter." Contemporary war admirers would take exception to that by at once instancing Word War II, wherein Hitler and his statist thugs slaughtered, among others, millions of Jews. (On the other … Continue reading War: Admirers and Detractors